Susanne,

From your description it sounds like PD cannot find the media files that you used in your project.

Have you moved the files? Are the files on your computers hard drive? Did you delete any of the files?

The project file that PD saves is just an information file that saves the settings and locations of the files used in that project. It does not save the actual media files. Nor does PD make any actual changes to the original media files while you are editing.

The error you got would have given you two options 'Browse' or 'Ignore'. By clicking on 'Ignore' you told PD not to bother trying to find the source files.

For future reference.
1- Always copy the source files to your hard drive before you start a project.
2- Never move or delete any of the media files after you start the project.
3- If you do move the media files then you will have to choose 'Browse' to locate each of the missing files.

Hal
OS - Win11 Pro, Alienware R13, CPU - Intel Core I7-12700KF 12 CPUs), 16g DDR5 4400 RAM, Video - Geeforce RTX 3080ti 12g, PD11 & PD365
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That was what it was. I am still learning this program and I didn't even think of that. Thanks a bunch for your help

Suzanne
Suzanne

You are welcome.

Hal
OS - Win11 Pro, Alienware R13, CPU - Intel Core I7-12700KF 12 CPUs), 16g DDR5 4400 RAM, Video - Geeforce RTX 3080ti 12g, PD11 & PD365
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Great answer Hal, couldn't have said it better.
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