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[scrogs]

Recently, my old computer with Vista home premium crashed and I purchased a new Gateway i5 computer with Windows 7 Home Premium on which I installed my Roxio Creator 2010 program.

I then went to my slideshow folder that has several ".dmss" shows that I created in the past. I selected one of these that I wanted to update with additional photos and audio and when I clicked to open it, it brought up the Roxio Creator 2010 home panel (not the Slideshow Assistant Panel that came up on my old computer). I then clicked on "Open Saved Project" on the Creator 2010 File Tab and I was asked to input a filename with either a ".rox" or a ".ROXIO" extension. None of my previous shows have either of these extensions!

I also have some ".dmsm" shows I created with Video Wave and when I clicked to open one of these, it correctly opened in  the Video Wave panel.

How can I get my ".dmss" files to open in Slideshow Assistant?

[sknis]

scrogs, on 30 October 2011 - 08:02 PM, said:

Recently, my old computer with Vista home premium crashed and I purchased a new Gateway i5 computer with Windows 7 Home Premium on which I installed my Roxio Creator 2010 program.

I then went to my slideshow folder that has several ".dmss" shows that I created in the past. I selected one of these that I wanted to update with additional photos and audio and when I clicked to open it, it brought up the Roxio Creator 2010 home panel (not the Slideshow Assistant Panel that came up on my old computer). I then clicked on "Open Saved Project" on the Creator 2010 File Tab and I was asked to input a filename with either a ".rox" or a ".ROXIO" extension. None of my previous shows have either of these extensions!

I also have some ".dmsm" shows I created with Video Wave and when I clicked to open one of these, it correctly opened in  the Video Wave panel.

How can I get my ".dmss" files to open in Slideshow Assistant?

A question first please.  As you may or may not know, the files are road maps to what you put int the slide shows.  You can see that by the size of the files.  As the road map, they rely on having all the images, music, etc in the same place on your new computer as they were in the old one.  If they are not, then the dmss files will ask you to point to the files.   You may have gotten this when you opened Video Wave.  

Did you move all your images, music, etc to the new computer in the same folders and locations?

Why don't you try to open slide show assistant and then navigate to the .dmss files?  The other way would be to right clcik on the dmss files and then select "open with" brose to the slide show assistant and select always open this file with that application.

On another point (won't help your issue) have you remembered to install SP! for Creator 2010?

[scrogs]

Thank you Sknis.
Yes, I know about the maps and the pointers to where the files are to be. I also believe that Slidehshow Assistant should first open and then if the files are not where they are supposed to be it will tell me the files that are missing. However,Slideshow Assistant does not open and there is my problem.

In trouble shooting this, I opened Creator 2010 and selected "Photo" and "Create a Slideshow" which took me to Slideshow Assistant where I created a new slide show. I put in about 30 photos and one song, saved it (it,as always, saved as a .dmss file). I  closed Slideshow Assistant, then went to the saved file and clicked to open it and Slideshow Assistant did not come up...Creator 2010 did. I then tried the "open with" function and was given no choice but Roxio Creator 2010; Slideshow Assistant was not offered.

Finally, I tried to find Slideshow Assistant in the Roxio program folder as well as in the entire computer using the search function; Slideshow Assistant was not found and therefore there was no way for me to open it. Even if I found and opened it there does not appear to be a way to retrieve a .dmss file (no tool bar in the Assistant).

As I previously stated, .dmsm files open correctly in Video Wave. This suggests that Creator 2010 is compatible with my Windows 7 (and the message on the 2010 box says the program is compatible with Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate).