Re: Saving project and reloading on another PC

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Thanks for the help, much appreciated!

Yeah, I had suspected that the source files should be accessible by
MM, so I made it a point to make sure that both PCs had access to all
the source files. I -suspected- that perhaps because of the different drive
letter assignment MM was getting "confused" and not locating the
source files. I had hoped that MM would use relative paths. I even opened
the MSWMM in Notepad to see if I could tweak the path designation,
but found out that this is not a text file :-S.

I will follow your recommendation to try and establish the link to the source.

Saga
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"John Inzer" <oobie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eW8rObNlIHA.484@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Saga wrote:
I am working on a project on two different computers. I imported the
video clips, edited as necessary till I was partially done. I then
saved my project. Later, on the second computer, I reloaded my
project and my timeline shows the clips, but with red Xs.I am
accessing the same resource on both PCs, that is, all the imported clips and files are available
to both
projects. One difference is that the reource maps to drive E: on one
PC and to drive F: on the other.

What is the best way to solve this? I have searched the Help file,
Googled and seen some tutorials, but so far none have addressed this
issue. Thanks!
Saga
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I think you know this...but just to clarify...
the source files must be accessed
by Movie Maker...the project file is
incomplete without them.

Try right clicking the Red Xs and
browse to the source files...maybe
this will re-establish the links.

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

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