PhotoDirector hangs at initial screen

Watercolorwilly

Senior Member Location: Phoenix Joined: Mar 13, 2011 11:35 Messages: 211 Offline

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Nov 28, 2014 01:34

I've been a happy person using PhotoDirector 6 until today. It works fine via PowerDirector, but suddenly it will not work in stand-alone use. I open it up, the PhotoDirector 6 logo appears and spins, and the initial screen appears. But the logo and spin will not stop and go away. And when clicking on any of the tabs at upper left, it will not respond. The only way to stop this is to kill PhotoDirector in the Task Manager.

Yet accessing PhotoDirector via PowerDirector is no problem. I need to work on several dozen photos and don't care to do them one at a time via PowerDirector. And I tried my left over PhotoDirector 5, and it works correctly as stand alone operation. What did I do wrong? Or is it a bug in PhotoDirector 6?

Bill Bill Seifert
HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-2022
8 core
AMD Radeon
Windows 11, 16 GB RAM

Mircea

Newbie Joined: Dec 19, 2013 07:52 Messages: 1 Offline

Nov 28, 2014 07:27

Same thing happened to me last week. A reinstall solved the problem for me.

Watercolorwilly

Senior Member Location: Phoenix Joined: Mar 13, 2011 11:35 Messages: 211 Offline

Nov 28, 2014 12:17

Thanks, Mircea. With your comment, I was about to do the same. Then I puzzled over how PowerDirector Suite Live allowed uninstalling and re-installing PhotoDirector 6. In that process, I noticed an update to PhotoDirector 6 was available. I did that first. Now PhotoDirector works as I expected. Some day in the future I will answer the question I posed, although I hope that need will not come up. Bill Seifert
HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-2022
8 core
AMD Radeon
Windows 11, 16 GB RAM