Narrations: Moving the location of Sound (wav) files

[jsl]

I have a whole bunch of presentations for which I attached voice narrations.
I'm doing a major overhaul of all of then, but don't want to lose my
originals. Therefore, I copy the whole director of powerpoint
presentations, including a subdirectory that houses the narration Wav files,
to a new directory. Unfortunately, the new location of Narrations is not
recognized by the powerpoint files. The relative location of the ppt files
and .wav files is the same, but, of course, the absolute location changed.
Most office links figure this out and adjust accordingly. Apparently this
is not so with powerpoint narrations. Is there any way to do a global
search/replace to adjust/fix all the narration links?
Thanks,
Jim

 

[Michael Koerner]

Sounds/Movies don't play, images disappear or links break when I move or email a
presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm


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I have a whole bunch of presentations for which I attached voice narrations.
I'm doing a major overhaul of all of then, but don't want to lose my
originals. Therefore, I copy the whole director of powerpoint
presentations, including a subdirectory that houses the narration Wav files,
to a new directory. Unfortunately, the new location of Narrations is not
recognized by the powerpoint files. The relative location of the ppt files
and .wav files is the same, but, of course, the absolute location changed.
Most office links figure this out and adjust accordingly. Apparently this
is not so with powerpoint narrations. Is there any way to do a global
search/replace to adjust/fix all the narration links?
Thanks,
Jim

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have a whole bunch of presentations for which I attached voice narrations.
I'm doing a major overhaul of all of then, but don't want to lose my
originals. Therefore, I copy the whole director of powerpoint
presentations, including a subdirectory that houses the narration Wav files,
to a new directory. Unfortunately, the new location of Narrations is not
recognized by the powerpoint files. The relative location of the ppt files
and .wav files is the same, but, of course, the absolute location changed.
Most office links figure this out and adjust accordingly. Apparently this
is not so with powerpoint narrations. Is there any way to do a global
search/replace to adjust/fix all the narration links?

Read the link Michael gave you to understand what's going on.

For the quick fix, I'd try this. Suppose you have your presentation in \My
Documents\Presentation\filename.ppt

Beneath that are the sound files in another folder.

Copy the entire folder to a new folder, let's call it "NEW"

So now you have \My Documents\New\filename.ppt and so on

Now rename the original folder to e.g. \OriginalPresentation
Rename the new folder to \Presentation (ie, the name of the original folder)

That should do the voila for ya.



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