When opening PD, if return to autosave project, just ignore the requests.

After loading the entire project, PD question want to save current project, answer no, go to menu File / New Project. AMD-FX 8350 / 8GB DDR3
SSD SUV400S37240G / 2-HD WD 1TB
AMD Radeon R9 270 / AOC M2470SWD
Windows 7-64 / PD16 Ultimate

That is not working.

When I do the Ignore, I get the following:

Cyberlink PowerDirector cannot open this media file because it was moved or missing. Check if it's available and then try again.

I do that and it loads the project with with the missing media files, but with chapters, titles and transitions. When I then save the project again, with a new file name. When I open PD again, the same message appears. I have also tried opening the project and then deleting the media files and then saving the project but that does not help.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated

Go to preferences/General and manually delete all your temp files including your autosaves.

Quote: That is not working.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated

I forgot one detail, when PD carried the project, (missing files in this case).

To try to create new project, PD asks whether to save the current project, answer not proceed.

To delete, temporarrios files and autosave projects, tomasc showed. AMD-FX 8350 / 8GB DDR3
SSD SUV400S37240G / 2-HD WD 1TB
AMD Radeon R9 270 / AOC M2470SWD
Windows 7-64 / PD16 Ultimate

Sorry to take so long on getting back to this, but I am still getting the prompt window when I initiate PowerDirector 13. I have gone into Preferences/General and manually deleted all temp files and set the Auto-detect to delete files after 1 Day. I have even deleted all the old .pds files up to the present. I have done so many iterations and combinations of trying to recover that mysterious temp file, like bringing it back, inserting the old media files, or at least files that have the old media files names, and then attempting to save it, but it wants a new file name and not just accepting the recovered file - hoping that I could then kill that .pds.

Nothing seems to work. Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I am aware of 3 utilities sold to companies to block downloads, stop updates, reverse changes made to a pc. If this is a company pc, then contact the IT person. I found out after deleting a file that later it was in the same place the next day.

Not a company pc, my own stand alone not even on a network.

It's very strange that you have the problem even after creating a new project. The new project can be completely blank and you shouldn't ever be prompted to open a temp file.

Two more ideas come to mind. Under the Preferences (gear icon), go to the Project tab and uncheck Automatically load last project, then close PD and try opening it again.

If the problem is STILL there, you should fully uninstall PD (and QuickTime and SmartSound, if prompted) and then reinstall using the original DVD or downloaded installer files. You'll need to have your license key but your issue should be solved.

After reinstalling, be sure to get the latest patch for PD (3130) and update QT to v7.7.8 from www.Quicktime.com

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Nobody, including Tech Support, could really solve this, so I did it by upgrading to PowerDirector 14