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No, it display's the photo's cached picture, and overlays that with 'this photo is missing', but BEFORE it displays ANY photo's, when the project is first loaded, it says 'the file is missing', but doesn't say what file..... I presume it's one of the project files it uses.
Nope, I have other photo editors, and haven't had any problems....
I think it's the fact that I'm using Onedrive, and two computers - if one computer is disconnected from the nas, when it then syncs the project file to onedrive, the other computer then downloads it, and then the project gets stuck, and for some reason defaults to looking on the c: drive.
I've now restored the project from the backup, and like I say, I've created a new blank project, so I can open that one, when I'm disconnected, and hopefully that will stop it from happening 
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Think I know what's going on.....
Whilst on holiday last week, I opened Photodirector, to look at the photo's I'd taken so far, but when you open PD, it tries to open the last project that you were using, so it tried to open my main project.... which it couldn't, as I wasn't connected to the NAS. I then just closed the project, and created a temp project, to view my photo's.
Once I got home, my laptop that I took with me, synced it's Onedrive directory, which would have included presumably an updated PD project file.
Then I loaded PD on the other laptop, which by this time, had also downloaded the latest PD project file from Onedrive...... which then caused the error..... I think!
Is there any way to stop PD from automatically loading the last project? In the meantime, I've created an empty project, and created a shortcut on my desktop to the new project file, so if I want to start PD 'disconnected' from my NAS, I can click on that icon......
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Just tried loading the project again, and noticed ANOTHER dialog that briefly pops up at the bottom of the window, saying 'the file is missing'
It says this before it displays any photo's, and before it says 'this photo is missing'.
Any idea what file it's talking about?
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Hi Pix,
Yeah, the backup project is working fine (and the photo's were always safe on the P: drive) so,yes, I'm not immediately worried, however it IS the second time this has happened - the first time I was able to tell Photodirector where the photo's were and it restored all the photo's at once, but this time, it doesn't seem to want to let me do that.
I'm wondering, if for some reason, my P: drive was disconnected at some point, when photodirector was launched, would it get confused? But even if that was the case, why won't it let me search for the photo's, like it did the first time?
As I said, I have a backup, but it's just inconvenient if this keeps happening.
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Hi,
I store all of my photo's on my NAS, which is set as drive 'P:'.
My PhotoDirector project (version 6, latest version, patched) is located on my local drive, in the OneDrive folder, so it get's synced to my onedrive account. This allows me to then open the project on another computer, which also has my NAS set to drive 'P:'. Although the project files get synced, they are also stored locally on the machine (on each of the two machines)
This has worked OK for some time, but now, for some reason, when I open photoDirector, it tells me that all my photo's are missing (I can see the thumbnails, but not the real photo) - even though the photo's are still on my NAS, and the NAS is still drive 'P:'.
The project appears to now think that my photo's should be on the C: drive for some reason.
It attempts to display the first photo in the project, and displays a dialog saying it's missing, and offers a search button and a trash button. If I click on the search button, nothing happens. I also cannot right click on another photo in the strip at the bottom, and then right click to say 'locate on disc', as this option is greyed out.
What's happened? And how can I tell it that my photo's are really still there?
I opened a backup of the project from a few days ago, and that still works OK, so it's not all lost, but I would like to find out WHY this is happening, as it's stlightly scarey that's it's saying my photo's are missing!
Thanks.
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Are you running at a high screen resolution on the new computer?
I've found if I reduce the screen resolution, PD13 runs a LOT faster. There seems to be an issue with the user interface and super high resolution screens in my experience.
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Hi Pix, thanks for the response,
OK, I'll try and explain a bit better.
On my main computer, I have all of my photo's in my one drive folder, which is on my c: drive, the same as you - on the main folder that contains all my photo folders, I've right clicked, and said 'make these files available offline' (or words to that effect, I'm not in front of my actual PC at the moment).
So, onedrive actually downloads the files, and PhotoDirector can import them.
On my laptop, which is also signed into onedrive, it too has the same folder, however these files are set to be 'available on-line only' (as my laptop has a small hard disc) - so they aren't really there, they are just place holders I presume, which when you open them, it goes to onedrive and downloads them. PhotoDirector doesn't seem to think there's anything there.
So, yes, you are talking about the right folder, on both machines, one is online only, the other is available offline - that's the only difference between them.
Does that make better sense? If not, let me know.
Thanks,
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Hi, I store all my photo's on OneDrive. On my main computer, the photo's are available offline, so are also on the C: drive.
On my other computer, they are only available online
Both computers use PhotoDirector.
On my computer that only has online access to the photo's, when I try to import the photo's to PhotoDirector, I select 'import folder', navigate to my onedrive directory, and within that, to my photo's directory, and tell it to import, however, it gives me the 'Photodirector only supportd jpeg, blah, blah'.... even though I've selected 'include subfolders'.
The folders DO contain jpegs....
Anyone got any ideas, other thsan making the photo's available offline....
Thanks.
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I have a Dell XPS 15, with the same graphics card (and also intel graphics too), processor, but 16GB of RAM.
PowerDirector runs like a dog on it.
Not sure what the fault is, as it runs fine on a Samsung i5, with Intel graphics....!
Even if I run PD and tell the Dell to use the intel graphics, it still runs badly, so ....
..and my Dell cost £1,600!
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Hi, I have the same problem.
I have a Dell XPS 15, Core i7, 16GB RAM, NVidea Geforce GT750, 500GB SSD, Win 8.1
Running the latest Power Director 13, and it's completely unusable. SO slow, I can see it redrawing the screen under the mouse sometimes. Previewing the video (HD 1080) stutters all the time.
I also have a Samsung Core i5 laptop, 4GB RAM, SSD, running Powerdirector 12, and editing the same video, it has no issues whatsoever.
I have contacted support, who asked for logfiles, I provided them, they asked more questions, then closed the call.
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