Rejoin Video Projects

[Picard]

Hello one and all.

 

I transferred all my Roxio video projects to a 2 TB hard drive so I could upgrade my PC to Windows 7 Ultimate.

 

Now that my PC has been rebuilt and all my files returned I find the films have been separated from the chapters and formatting I placed it in.

 

How can I put these projects back together without having to go back and reedit all the chapters in place plus whatever backgrounds I used.

 

I'm pretty upset about this.

 

Thank you.

 

Richard P.

[Picard]

Dear Mr. Hardin,

 

Thank you very much for your advice. I have managed to rejoin several projects but others are not succeeding. Some have so many options to choose from to reconnecting and yet when I look for them I can't find them. This is going to be tricky I guess. I should have created separate files for the finished projects instead of filing them back with the original videos.

 

What would cause the projects to separate from their formatting.?

 

Richard P.

[Jim_Hardin]

You are getting something like this:

 

 

If you choose the Go to Error it will give you this:

 

 

Choose Browse and point it to the New Folder where you put the pictures and movies:

 

 

Should be good to go

[Jim_Hardin]

Use the Show Files and see what the offending file name and original path was…

 

In perfect 20/10 hindsight – Stratey

[gi7omy]

The project (dmsm) files are just a signpost to point to where the files are. If you moved them to an external drive, then thwy will be pointing to the wrong place

 

YThey need to go EXACTLY where they were before being moved

[Picard]

The project (dmsm) files are just a signpost to point to where the files are. If you moved them to an external drive, then thwy will be pointing to the wrong place

 

YThey need to go EXACTLY where they were before being moved

 

 

Thank you for your assistance but the files were transferred back into the master Video file just like they were when I exported them.

 

Do you have any other suggestions. I fear I may have not described my problem. The DMSM files are there but the movie they were contained in is missing. I still have the originals need to put them back together with chapters I created.

 

I get a message saying Missing File in Menu.

[ggrussell]

Picard - There is NO Video or image inside DMSM files, but rather just keeps a link or pointer to where the file(s) is on the hard drive. Even if you just moved the file to a different folder on the same hard drive, you would still get the same error. When you were told to move the files back to where they were, Daithi wasn't talking about the DMSM file, but the video, images and audio files. For example if your videos were in D:/My Videos/, that is where you need to move them back from the 2TB drive. When I rebuild my computer, I make sure that I have a similar drive structure so I can put my data files back to the same DRIVE and FOLDER.