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Active Project will not load into PD14
CPH54a [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Sheffield, England Joined: Jan 17, 2011 09:15 Messages: 15 Offline
[Post New] Sep 16, 2017 08:20
I have an on going project that will not load into PD. It was saved correctly at the last shut down and seems from its properties to be all ok. When I try to load the project it is recognized and the project box appears, the blue line starts and the wording load data to time line shows but only very briefly and nothing comes in. When I try to close PD it asks me if I want to save the project so it seems to think it has accepted new data. I have tried loading direct from Windows Explorer allowing the file to recognize and open PD but the action is the same. The action is the same both ways on another pc. Looking at project properties in Windows Explorer it does indicate that the file was been used today and shows that the files size is 5.5meg so all its properties are still there. I am using Windows 10 have many other projects in progress ( some larger than this one ) and all of these load ok so it seems that the problem lies within the project.

Has anybody a quick fix or an idea on recovery as I don't want to read load and amend all the clips, juggle the titles and the back ground music. David
Longedge [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Joined: Apr 28, 2011 15:38 Messages: 1504 Offline
[Post New] Sep 16, 2017 08:39
I might have missed something but I'm not quite clear - are you running PDR and then opening your previous project at which point it hangs or double clicking the .pds? You could try opening one of the most recent automatic backups which in my system are located at

C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\15.0\Cache\AutoSave\

If that works then it would show the saved project has been corrupted somehow and the easiest I think would be to delete it and save the backup in it's place.

It might help to post the output from dxdiag on your system.
The Shadowman
Senior Contributor Location: UK Joined: Dec 15, 2014 13:06 Messages: 1831 Offline
[Post New] Sep 16, 2017 15:36
Quote I have an on going project that will not load into PD. It was saved correctly at the last shut down and seems from its properties to be all ok. When I try to load the project it is recognized and the project box appears, the blue line starts and the wording load data to time line shows but only very briefly and nothing comes in. When I try to close PD it asks me if I want to save the project so it seems to think it has accepted new data. I have tried loading direct from Windows Explorer allowing the file to recognize and open PD but the action is the same. The action is the same both ways on another pc. Looking at project properties in Windows Explorer it does indicate that the file was been used today and shows that the files size is 5.5meg so all its properties are still there. I am using Windows 10 have many other projects in progress ( some larger than this one ) and all of these load ok so it seems that the problem lies within the project.

Has anybody a quick fix or an idea on recovery as I don't want to read load and amend all the clips, juggle the titles and the back ground music.


Two things worth trying.

1 change the name of the File and try again

2 copy the file in Windows and try the duplicate Panny TM10, GH2, GH4,
CPH54a [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Sheffield, England Joined: Jan 17, 2011 09:15 Messages: 15 Offline
[Post New] Sep 23, 2017 11:42
Quote I might have missed something but I'm not quite clear - are you running PDR and then opening your previous project at which point it hangs or double clicking the .pds? You could try opening one of the most recent automatic backups which in my system are located at

C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\15.0\Cache\AutoSave\

If that works then it would show the saved project has been corrupted somehow and the easiest I think would be to delete it and save the backup in it's place.

It might help to post the output from dxdiag on your system.




Thanks for your suggestions. I bit the bullet due to time constraints and as I only needed to make two minor adjustments to the project I loaded the finished mpeg of the project and cut and inserted the new pieces into that and saved again as a new project. Now I have time I will try you suggestions. David
CPH54a [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Sheffield, England Joined: Jan 17, 2011 09:15 Messages: 15 Offline
[Post New] Sep 23, 2017 11:43
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Quote I have an on going project that will not load into PD. It was saved correctly at the last shut down and seems from its properties to be all ok. When I try to load the project it is recognized and the project box appears, the blue line starts and the wording load data to time line shows but only very briefly and nothing comes in. When I try to close PD it asks me if I want to save the project so it seems to think it has accepted new data. I have tried loading direct from Windows Explorer allowing the file to recognize and open PD but the action is the same. The action is the same both ways on another pc. Looking at project properties in Windows Explorer it does indicate that the file was been used today and shows that the files size is 5.5meg so all its properties are still there. I am using Windows 10 have many other projects in progress ( some larger than this one ) and all of these load ok so it seems that the problem lies within the project.

Has anybody a quick fix or an idea on recovery as I don't want to read load and amend all the clips, juggle the titles and the back ground music.


Two things worth trying.

1 change the name of the File and try again

2 copy the file in Windows and try the duplicate





Thanks for your suggestions. I bit the bullet due to time constraints and as I only needed to make two minor adjustments to the project I loaded the finished mpeg of the project and cut and inserted the new pieces into that and saved again as a new project. Now I have time I will try you suggestions. David
CPH54a [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Sheffield, England Joined: Jan 17, 2011 09:15 Messages: 15 Offline
[Post New] Sep 29, 2017 15:40
Quote I might have missed something but I'm not quite clear - are you running PDR and then opening your previous project at which point it hangs or double clicking the .pds? You could try opening one of the most recent automatic backups which in my system are located at

C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\15.0\Cache\AutoSave\

If that works then it would show the saved project has been corrupted somehow and the easiest I think would be to delete it and save the backup in it's place.

It might help to post the output from dxdiag on your system.




Fantastic - located abd restored. Thanks very much indeed !! David
Longedge [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Joined: Apr 28, 2011 15:38 Messages: 1504 Offline
[Post New] Sep 29, 2017 16:19
Glad you got it sorted and thank you for the update. It's always nice to know the outcome (especially when it's successful smile ).
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