Re: True that PP uses absolute paths to locate video clip resources?????
- From: Steve Rindsberg <abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:34:37 EDT
> My posting was way too long and rambling, and in my sleep-deprived anxiety I
> neglected to be clear that the problem was under Windows XP.
I wondered if that wasn't the case. OK. First, it's nothing to do with
Windows XP per se. It's a combination of PPT and the Windows MCI media player
(mplay32.exe, not Windows Media Player) that's at fault.
The Media Player, not PPT, plays movies and sounds, and it has the
128-character path limitation.
I'm unsure how this'd work when creating on Mac and moving to Windows as it
seems you might be doing, but on Windows, if you put the media files in the
same folder as the PPT and only then insert them into the presentation, you get
a relative link; or rather then link is to the media filename only, no drive
or path reference. I do think it works the same on Mac versions of PPT.
See this for more info:
Sounds/Movies don't play, images disappear or links break when I move or email
a presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm
Also, have a look at http://fixlinks.pptools.com
The site describes our commercial FixLinks addin for Windows PPT, but the free
demo includes a link reporting tool that may help you sort out what's going on.
There's some info there about how you can fix links w/o having to purchase the
addin too. This is not a sales call. In fact, you can't even run the addin on
the Mac. <g>
Ill post this
> over there because I still need confirmation. Sorry for the bother to anyone
> on the Mac side. Maybe by the time you finished reading all that you flipped
> when it seemed I had solved the problem anyway. I can understand that.
>
> The Files folder is a dumb name. Its carried over from the old OS, and I
> should probably rename it someday. Its shorthand for an entire companys
> filing system, which is shared on the network and synchronized with laptops.
> Thanks for the suggestions, but I understand file structures very well and
> appreciate the magnificent potential of aliases.
>
> As for your first question, I wanted confirmation of something that sounds
> unreasonable or inadequately documented. This problem caused me a lot of
> pain and trouble, and I was trying to be very sure this was likely to be a
> full and complete solution since I have a lot more short deadline work. I
> need to be sure nothing like that will happen again, and the PP groups are
> filled with anomalies concerning PP and media files.
>
> I also wanted to be sure that other people would know about it in case
> anyone else might suffer the way I did. Tech support took many hours and
> false suggestions to come up with this analysis. They put me through a lot
> of hoops while all the time mumbling this shouldnt be happening.
>
>
>
>
> On 4/22/05 10:22 PM, in article BE8F29B2.93F5D%berkowit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> "Paul Berkowitz" <berkowit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 4/22/05 4:31 PM, in article BE8ED762.24B50%bill@xxxxxxxxxx, "Bill
> Weylock" <bill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If not, can you suggest something else.
>
> By the way, bringing the directory to the desktop does seem to solve the
> problems.
>
> Why suggest something else when you found the solution, which just happens
> to confirm exactly what you were told? Too bad there's a bug, but given that
> you know what it is and it's awfully simple to accommodate it, what's your
> problem? You don't have to use the desktop, Just move the presentation's
> folder to the top level within ~/Documents and you'll be fine. (Who needs a
> "files" folder? What else is there but files?) You could even make a
> "presentations" folder within ~/Documents, and put it - and all your other
> presentations - there. Then make an alias to it in the deeper folder and
> satisfy your neatness urges that way. You can still find it (the alias)
> where you'd expect.
>
>
>
>
> Panther 10.3.6
> Office 2004
> Windows XP Pro SP2
> Office 2003
>
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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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