Problems with the Transition Room

John Reno

Newbie Joined: Aug 28, 2009 20:58 Messages: 9 Offline

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Aug 30, 2009 12:41

I'm going to change everthing I said.

TRANSITION ROOM
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If you make any changes to your favorites or any custom folders, "save" will not save those changes. PD8 only saves those changes on exit. So, if PD8 crashes, you loose any changes you made.

I think in a patch, whatever function is used to save Transition organization should be applied when the save button is clicked. That should be a single "call" line added to the save button function part of the program. PD8 does crash a bunch.

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Aug 30, 2009 14:04

John -

I guess you have already put your suggestions in the Online Improvement Survey. If not, it's here: http://cyberlink.wufoo.com/forms/powerdirector-improvement-survey/

Cheers - Tony
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John Reno

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Aug 30, 2009 14:28

That's not a Cyberlink website (?) and it refers to PD7?

ynotfish

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Aug 30, 2009 15:40

OK - I simply took the link from the Index page.
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BarryTheCrab

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Aug 30, 2009 15:49

Finally, some one else who cannot save favs in transitions!
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Ok, now then, let me tell you, you will NEVER fix that. But with new subfolder creation in PD8, you can make a folder of your own. Name it RenoFavs, or whatever, and it will save.
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John Reno

Newbie Joined: Aug 28, 2009 20:58 Messages: 9 Offline

Aug 30, 2009 16:26

No it does work - user created folders work too. It's just that if PD8 crashes before you exit, that organizational (sp?) work will not be saved. Changes to "favorites" (etc) from any room are only saving on exit.

Someone at Cyberlink needs to take a look at PD8's "on exit" events and see what could be pointed to by the project "save" function. Obviously it's not smart to assume you will be able to save certain things at a proper program termination. It's been years since I used anything that crashes a fraction of the number of times as PowerDirector. It's just kind of silly to write the program with the assumption that it will never crash.

Just close and re-open PD8 after you mess with favorites in any room.

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