File .MSWMM not found despite being present

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In MS Movie Maker, I have a large project with about 1500 photos, music and
transitions etc. In the middle of previewing the movie, it stopped with the
message insufficient memory. After defragging and using Norton Speed up, I
can see the saved project in my file, look at its properties etc, but when
wanting to open it, I get the following message.

"The file "C:\DOCUMENT\....etc.MSWMM" could not be found. Verify that the
file has not been deleted, renamed, or moved, and then try again."

This is rather puzzling, as I can open other projects without problems.

Any advice on how to open this project would be much appreciated as I have
10 mates each expecting to receive a DVD of our surfing trip to the Mentawais
very soon.
 
John said:
In MS Movie Maker, I have a large project with about 1500 photos,
music and transitions etc. In the middle of previewing the movie, it
stopped with the message insufficient memory. After defragging and
using Norton Speed up, I can see the saved project in my file, look
at its properties etc, but when wanting to open it, I get the
following message.

"The file "C:\DOCUMENT\....etc.MSWMM" could not be found. Verify that
the file has not been deleted, renamed, or moved, and then try again."

This is rather puzzling, as I can open other projects without
problems.

Any advice on how to open this project would be much appreciated as I
have 10 mates each expecting to receive a DVD of our surfing trip to
the Mentawais very soon.
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Did you try running Disk Cleanup?

1500 image files is a very large project...
it's not surprising that you received an
error about insufficient memory.

Just wondering if you tried double left
clicking the .mswmm file? Do you get
the same error if you open Movie Maker
and go to...File / Open Project?

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
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I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
Thank you for the comments. I had not used Disk Cleanup previously, but I did
a few minutes back. However, this had no impact.

I had previously tried double left clicking to open the file, in addition to
right clicking for Open As, and Open. These still gave the same result. I
tried these opening options again after running Disk Cleanup, but,
unfortunately I got the same result.

Mmmm - looks grim at this stage, but I will keep my fingers crossed.
 
John said:
Thank you for the comments. I had not used Disk Cleanup previously,
but I did a few minutes back. However, this had no impact.

I had previously tried double left clicking to open the file, in
addition to right clicking for Open As, and Open. These still gave
the same result. I tried these opening options again after running
Disk Cleanup, but, unfortunately I got the same result.

Mmmm - looks grim at this stage, but I will keep my fingers crossed.
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Ok...you state that the program stopped
in the middle of *viewing* the .mswmm
file. This doesn't sound like a corrupt file,
it simply sounds like limited resources.

Did you ever attempt to save the project
in a movie format? .wmv or .avi?

Then you report that you defragged...
which should help the program to access
the files more efficiently.

Then you say...you ran Norton Speed Up.
What is Norton Speed Up? It sounds like
this may be where the issue began.

There's a slim chance that doing a system
restore to a time before this issue occurred
could have a positive result.

--

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
 
try opening the project file in Bruce Shankle's Windows Movie Maker
Utility.... a free download from

http://www.bruceshankle.com/_mgxroot/page_10765.html

if it opens it and lists the source files, than there's a chance it's not
corrupt beyond repair.... if not, it's a second strike against it, after
Movie Maker being the first.

The 3rd pitch would be to take a copy of the project file to another
computer and open it.... the source files are not needed to open a project
file in Movie Maker....
 
To John Inzer

Unfortunately I did not try to save my project in a movie format like .wmv
or .avi.

I also made a mistake when I stated I ran Norton Speed Up - It was actually
called Norton Speed Disk. It appears to work rather similarly to defragging.

Following your suggestion, I have tried a couple of times to do a system
restore, but both times after going through the process, I got an error
message to say that the system would not restore to the two particular times
I nominated. I will keep trying until I get the System Restore to work.

Many thanks
 
Many thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately when I ran Bruce Shankle's
program it would not list the source files. I tried Bruce's program on other
Movie Maker projects and it worked OK. Obviously there is something
specifically wrong with this particular project file.

Following your last suggestion, I will try to take the file to another
computer later today and see if it works there. I will let you know the
outcome.
 
John said:
To John Inzer

Unfortunately I did not try to save my project in a movie format like
.wmv or .avi.

I also made a mistake when I stated I ran Norton Speed Up - It was
actually called Norton Speed Disk. It appears to work rather
similarly to defragging.

Following your suggestion, I have tried a couple of times to do a
system restore, but both times after going through the process, I got
an error message to say that the system would not restore to the two
particular times I nominated. I will keep trying until I get the
System Restore to work.

Many thanks
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Ok...Speed Disk is similar ro Windows
XP Error Checking (ScanDisk).

The following link explains what it does:

(315265) How to Perform Disk Error Checking
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265
(this should run before Defrag...if it finds
errors it should be run again and again until
no errors are found)

Here's what Defrag does:

(314848) How to Defragment Your Disk
Drive Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848

Try running System Restore in Safe Mode.

(315222) A Description of the Safe Mode
Boot Options in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315222

--

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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