Cannot open previously saved project

T

Tim L

I cannot open a recently saved project. The program freezes after the
progress bar reaches the end in the Checking Project Files box. I'm running
wmm v. 2.1.4026.0 on Windows XP. Any ideas?
 
J

John Inzer

Tim said:
I cannot open a recently saved project. The program freezes after the
progress bar reaches the end in the Checking Project Files box. I'm
running wmm v. 2.1.4026.0 on Windows XP. Any ideas?
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Not much help I guess...but there is a discussion
of the same issue at the following link:

thread about a corrupt movie maker .mswmm project file
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?&PostID=82678

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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I am a volunteer

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me may not work for you

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T

Tim L

I am considering reinstalling Moviemaker. Do I need to reinstall Media
Center to do this?
 
J

John Inzer

Tim said:
I am considering reinstalling Moviemaker. Do I need to reinstall
Media Center to do this?
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If you can open Movie Maker and work on a new project...
chances are that your previous .mswmm project file is
corrupted.

See the following article for info on reinstalling Movie Maker.

Movie Maker 2.1 Installation
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Setup-Software-2_1.html

Good luck...

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

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T

Tim L

Thanks again for your help. I had already downloaded SP3 and I was able to
create a new project, so unfortunately the file was corrupted. From now on,
I think I'll save the project as a new name until I'm finished so that I will
always have an earlier version to go back to if this happens again.
 
J

John Inzer

Tim said:
Thanks again for your help. I had already downloaded SP3 and I was
able to create a new project, so unfortunately the file was
corrupted. From now on, I think I'll save the project as a new name
until I'm finished so that I will always have an earlier version to
go back to if this happens again.
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You're welcome.

Saving several versions of your project
file is a good idea.

Thanks for the update.

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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
 
T

Tim L

Apparently not enough. This weekend I put in about 3 hours of work on a home
movie project and saved it as a different version every time. Went to open
it today and not a single version from that day would open. Very
frustrating. No program should be this difficult to use.
 
J

John Inzer

Tim said:
Apparently not enough. This weekend I put in about 3 hours of work
on a home movie project and saved it as a different version every
time. Went to open it today and not a single version from that day
would open. Very frustrating. No program should be this difficult
to use.
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Sorry...that's not a common issue and I
have no idea what could be the cause.

Just wondering...if you go to the folder the
..mswmm files are saved in (probably My
Videos) and double left click one...what
(if anything) happens?

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

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T

Tim L

John, I figured it out. There was a corrupt file in my movie. It was a
still that was not a jpeg. I know that wmm is pretty particular about the
types of files that it will recognize and this was certainly the case. Once
I deleted the pic from its folder I was able to open my project. It seems to
be working just fine now. Hopefully this will not happen to others. Thanks
for all of your insight.
 
J

John Inzer

Tim said:
John, I figured it out. There was a corrupt file in my movie. It
was a still that was not a jpeg. I know that wmm is pretty
particular about the types of files that it will recognize and this
was certainly the case. Once I deleted the pic from its folder I was
able to open my project. It seems to be working just fine now.
Hopefully this will not happen to others. Thanks for all of your
insight.
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Good detective work!

Thanks for the update.

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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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