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I've just purchased a new computer and I'm now on Windows 10 (previously using Windows 7). I've managed to install my Photodirector 8 and it appears to be working ok. However there are a couple of problems I've encountered with it.

The first one is I can't seem to save the IPTC information as I was able to do before. I have created a profile name but was not asked for any information when doing that. I can't remember if I had to provide it for the profile on my old computer or if it picked it up and saved the info when I exported a pic. On the old computer it came up for every photo I imported from my Nikon camera(s) so it's a little inconvenient to have to type it in each time.

The second problem is that when I close PHD8 down it seems to revert to some sort of default settings. On my old computer if I selected a specific file to save a photo to it kept that setting every time I opened the programme up. As an example I normally save to a file called "Watermarked". I take a variety of photographs and by doing it this way I can distribute to different files at my leisure and I don't have to keep changing the target file every time I saved a photo. Every time I open the programme now it has reverted to saving to "my photos".

I hope the above makes sense and that someone might be kind enough to help this "silver surfer". I'm pretty sure I've missed something or not done something right.

Many thanks.
optodata
Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline
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All of PhD's settings are stored in a master project file, which ends in .phd. Normally that file is stored in the \Pictures\PhotoDirector\8.0\user name folder, and if you still have access to your old computer you can try to retrive that and overwrite the copy on your new PC.

If all you original pics are in folders with the same names as they were on your Win7 machine, PhD should find them right away. If your pics are stored in different folders on your new system, you will need to point PhD to them when you start it up with the original .phd file in place, but that will only need to be done once.
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