Moving files and problems with paths

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I created a little movie but foolishly had left everything in the directory
where it originally resided (E:\my pictures)

Today, I thought to do a bit of housekeeping and I moved all of the files
associated with the project to a new directory (E:\my pictures\movie).

When I opened the project, I had a bunch of blanks in the movie. I figured
out that everything still pointed back to "E:\My pictures"

I can see that this is going to cause major problems when I put in a new
hard drive and my data drive becomes D:.

Is there an easy way to change the paths in Movie Maker?

Thanks.
 
John Inzer said:
You can re-establish the links to the source
files by right clicking the Red Xs in Movie
Maker and browse to the new location.
Click to expand...

Thanks. That's a great help.
 
I said:
Thanks. That's a great help.
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You're welcome.

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I am a volunteer

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me may not work for you

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John Inzer said:
You can re-establish the links to the source
files by right clicking the Red Xs in Movie
Maker and browse to the new location.
Click to expand...

I spoke too soon.

I figured that I'd play with this feature a bit so I moved one of the photos
from it's original location and then opened the project file. Sure enough
there was the "X" on the time line. I did the right click and selected
"Browse." I found the picture and selected it.

That's where things went bad. I got a message saying that the new picture
wasn't similar enough to the original to replace it. Huh? It was the
picture just in a different location.

Any suggestions.
 
I said:
I spoke too soon.

I figured that I'd play with this feature a bit so I moved one of the
photos from it's original location and then opened the project file.
Sure enough there was the "X" on the time line. I did the right
click and selected "Browse." I found the picture and selected it.

That's where things went bad. I got a message saying that the new
picture wasn't similar enough to the original to replace it. Huh?
It was the picture just in a different location.

Any suggestions.
Click to expand...
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Sorry...that should work, I have no idea what went wrong.

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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
 
I'll tell you what went wrong.

What went wrong is Microsoft creating yet more broken-ware.

Microsoft Movie Maker is so full of bugs and brokenness it may as well be a
virus.
 
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