Alternatives to "Packing"?

rkruz3

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Jul 26, 2023 22:40

I'm moving to another computer and have 100 or so videos that Ive edited in PD on the old computer.
I understand "Packing" a project will allow me to move that projects files where ever and still edit on another computer.

However, thats a lot of Packing to do on projects I did not perform the Packing function on in the past.
I have tried moving the project files from the old to the new computer while maintaining their file organization integrity, but PD on the new computer is not able to find the "Media Content" when I open Power Directors ".PDS" project file.

Is there any way to set a pointer or other methods other than Packing that will allow a 2nd computer to run PD from the original .pds project file?

JL_JL

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Jul 26, 2023 23:05

Quote However, thats a lot of Packing to do on projects I did not perform the Packing function on in the past.
I have tried moving the project files from the old to the new computer while maintaining their file organization integrity, but PD on the new computer is not able to find the "Media Content" when I open Power Directors ".PDS" project file.

What do you mean by "maintaining their file organization integrity"?

If all the assets are in the exact same locations on the new computer, the pds will find the media assets. So if some asset is on D:\junk\ and another on E:\junk2\ that same structure has to exist with those same files located there on the new computer. Some pds files may be missing a file or two or possible custom titles and such depending on what edits were done and depending on which PD version created the pds file. Some PD edit changes were stored in say AppData or another temp location that really was never defined by the user, this is very PD along with CD and AD version centric.

If one wants, you can strip the information out of a pds files as was done here https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/52056.page#post_box_272717 for AndrewRacz1, read his OP issue at the top of thread.

Jeff