could not be imported. Unspecified error

[Guest]

could not be imported. Unspecified error is the error i get when i try to
import a video, please help me find the fix.

thank you, marla

 

[Wojo]

Hi Marla
What type of video file is it?
Is it MPG?

 

[Guest]

Windows movie maker used to work perfect for me, then one day when I went to
load an mpeg file I got this error message, thinking it was just that file, I
tried to upload files that worked in this program before, and they will not
upload either, I get the same error message.

 

[John Inzer]

could not be imported. Unspecified error is the error i get when i
try to import a video, please help me find the fix.

thank you, marla

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The following article may offer some ideas:

Movie Maker 2 Crashes and Hangs
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Issues-Acceleration-and-Codecs.html

The following link is the result of a
Google Groups search for Unspecified
Error, maybe it will be useful;

Movie Maker Unspecified Error
http://tinyurl.com/ebk7j

--
John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

It is not on that site, but I found a fix, just don't understand how to do
it. If anyone can help, pleaseeeee do.

I had this problem and I just did some debugging and found the cause in my
case: I had changed the folder attributes on my temporary files folder. Movie
Maker 2.1 checks the attributes on startup and fails if the folder is
read-only. I guess it'll also fail if the folder is missing but I haven't
checked that.

This instance of the problem is easy to fix. Go to a command prompt
(Start|Programs|Accessories|Command Prompt) and type

Set

followed by the Enter key

The resulting output usually contains a line like:

TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\UserName\LOCALS~1\Temp

The stuff after the = sign is the path to the temporary files folder. You
need to change directory to the parent folder of this temporary files folder
(usually C:\DOCUME~1\UserName\LOCALS~1) by executing command

CD C:\DOCUME~1\UserName\LOCALS~1

followed by the Enter key

Then check that the Temp sub-folder exists using the dir command. If it
doesn't already exist, create it using

MD Temp

followed by the Enter key

In my case the folder was there but the attributes included the read-only
flag, so I reset the attributes by executing command

attrib -r +a -s -h Temp

followed by the Enter key

Start Movie Maker and it works.

Note: you can perform all of the above steps using Windows Explorer if you
aren't using the defaults of hiding system files etc. but it's easy using the
command prompt.

 

[John Inzer]

I would be surprised if the fix works.
Let us know if it works for you.

All folders are read only and most
users do not have the Unspecified
error issue.

Many times it is corrected using the
info I posted for you.

--
John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
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