[rtscout]

I created a couple of slideshows a while back (I'm pretty sure I used Video Wave 9) using my laptop. I transferred the .dat, .dmsm and .dmss files (along with all the pictures and sound files) to my new desktop, which has Roxio Media Creator 9 on it. I know I'm probably going to have to fix all the paths in order to get it to play, but VW 9 doesn't even recognize the files. I can't even begin to diagnose this problem, since VW 9 should recognize files any previous versions of Video Wave (I assume). Any ideas?

This post has been edited by rtscout: 12 April 2009 - 11:14 AM

[grandpabruce]

I created a couple of slideshows a while back (I'm pretty sure I used Video Wave 9) using my laptop. I transferred the .dat, .dmsm and .dmss files (along with all the pictures and sound files) to my new desktop, which has Roxio Media Creator 9 on it. I know I'm probably going to have to fix all the paths in order to get it to play, but VW 9 doesn't even recognize the files. I can't even begin to diagnose this problem, since VW 9 should recognize files any previous versions of Video Wave (I assume). Any ideas?

You assumption is incorrect. VideoWave 9 may recognize portions of a project, made in an earlier version, but more than likely, it won't.

[REDWAGON]

One other thing to be aware of is when transferring your videowave files around on the same computer or for that matter to another computer.---If the files were in a particular folder, on a particular drive, in one computer and you transfer them to another computer, if you name the drive and folders exactly as they were originally on the forst computer, the program will find them as that's the path it is looking for. So one has to be very careful about transferring your videowave files (photos, audio files etc.) around.

Frank...

[rtscout]

Back when I made the slideshows, I did have path issues when I moved pictures around, so I anticipated that. But I don't understand why a dmsm ("VEM" file) wouldn't even be recognized by a later version of Video Wave (if I open Video Wave and select "Open Production" under File, then select the folder that I know the dmsm file is in, the file doesn't even appear). Of course, like an idiot I formatted the laptop before I verified I could edit the slideshow on my desktop. I never anticiapted this problem.
Thanks for your responses.

[grandpabruce]

Back when I made the slideshows, I did have path issues when I moved pictures around, so I anticipated that. But I don't understand why a dmsm ("VEM" file) wouldn't even be recognized by a later version of Video Wave (if I open Video Wave and select "Open Production" under File, then select the folder that I know the dmsm file is in, the file doesn't even appear). Of course, like an idiot I formatted the laptop before I verified I could edit the slideshow on my desktop. I never anticiapted this problem.
Thanks for your responses.

No need to start another thread, with the same topic. It has been deleted.

Text, transitions, and transition themes, are 3 things, for starters, that changed from version to version. That is part of the reason that the newer version of the software won't open a project from an earlier version.

[sknis]

If you navigate to the file and double click on the dmsm file, what happens?

Also are you able to make a new slide show?

[rtscout]

If you navigate to the file and double click on the dmsm file, what happens?

Also are you able to make a new slide show?

When I double click on either .dmsm or .dmss icon, VideoWave 9 opens, but there is nothing in it - it's as though I just opened the program directly.

It seems as though I can make a new slide show... I added some slides and it played, but I didn't go further than that. Do all the EMC versions use the same file extensions (dmsm, dmss)? I think it's weird that I don't get some sort of error message, alerting me to the fact that I'm trying to open an older file version (though I'm not even positive it is in fact a slideshow file made with an earlier version of EMC).

[sknis]

When I double click on either .dmsm or .dmss icon, VideoWave 9 opens, but there is nothing in it - it's as though I just opened the program directly.

It seems as though I can make a new slide show... I added some slides and it played, but I didn't go further than that. Do all the EMC versions use the same file extensions (dmsm, dmss)? I think it's weird that I don't get some sort of error message, alerting me to the fact that I'm trying to open an older file version (though I'm not even positive it is in fact a slideshow file made with an earlier version of EMC).

No, I don't remember getting that warning.

Sorry, perhaps you have lost all that work.

[rtscout]

No, I don't remember getting that warning.

Sorry, perhaps you have lost all that work.

Well at least I have the slideshow burned to disc, so recreating it won't be nearly as painful as making the original (my first EMC project). For what it's worth, I tried e-mailing technical support, but because I'm not using Creator 2009 or EMC 10 they wouldn't give me any information at all. I wish I had gone wish another program.
Thanks, though, for your input!

[lynn98109]

Point to consider for next time - instead of formatting a drive, replace it (Hard Drives are cheap these days), and keep the old one for backup

Lynn

[sknis]

... and how would that have helped in this situation?

[lynn98109]

... and how would that have helped in this situation?

There is a general assumption that one should "reformat the Hard Drive".

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I formatted the laptop before I verified I could edit the slideshow on my desktop.
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If it were generally assumed that one could keep the old drive and put in a new drive, then it would be possible to refer to the old drive (most of the time, except in the case of drive failure), and a lot of problems would be easier to work thru.

Lynn

[Brendon]

That's on a par with throwing a car away because the ash tray got full.

Perhaps Jim's instructions for a Clean Install should include always buying a new hard drive?

[lynn98109]

That's on a par with throwing a car away because the ash tray got full.

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If you read the thread instead of aim-and-shoot, you would notice that the question was not a reinstall, but the old Hard Drive was reformatted.

Lynn

This post has been edited by lynn98109: 14 April 2009 - 12:55 AM

[sknis]

If you read the thread instead of aim-and-shoot, you would notice that the question was not a reinstall, but the old Hard Drive was reformatted.

Lynn

Perhaps if you read the thread, you would have noticed that the laptop hard drive had already been formatted AND that has nothing to do with this issue !

Do you have a FIX for this situation? The OP has copied all the older version slide show files (dmsm and dat), images, etc. from his old laptop to a desk top. He is now unable to open the dmsm files he has copied from the laptop to the desk top. The desk top has a newer version.

I doubt that even installing the older version on the desk top would solve the issue.

The next time, for future reference, you should have, etc. Ranks right up there with "Wait until your father gets home !" None of those are very productive.

To the OP, sorry about the drift. I just don't know what else to suggest to you.

This post has been edited by sknis: 14 April 2009 - 03:46 AM