media pool files

Patti-P wrote on 4/18/2020, 12:45 AM

Thanks for your quick response to my previous question about interactions between Photostory and computer files. It was reassuring. I did not know that desktop files were so vulnerable (which I will admit I use as a quick access storage space. I'll fix that now so thanks.)

One followup question...Can you explain what is meant by this sentence in the photostory manual?

"The Media Pool displays the data on your hard drive. Files that are deleted here cannot be recovered in Windows Explorer."

Patti

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emmrecs wrote on 4/18/2020, 4:58 AM

@Patti-P

That sentence from the manual is quite correct! If you, as the user of the software, choose to delete a file via the delete option in the Media Pool in Photostory, the chosen file will be deleted from your hard drive and so not recoverable. (It actually goes into your Recycle Bin so can be restored from there, in emergency.)

But that is not the same thing at all as saying that Photostory deletes files. The above scenario is entirely down to user action(s).

HTH

Jeff

browj2 wrote on 4/18/2020, 6:21 PM

@Patti-P

Just to add to what Jeff said, the Explorer tab of the Media Pool is just a variant of Windows Explorer. It is live. Anything that you do there affects the file system. If you delete a folder from the Explorer, then you have deleted it from your hard disk, exactly the same as if you had done it from Windows Explorer. But, PhotoStory does not do this by itself, the user does this. Thus, do not delete files from the media pool.

When you import a file, video, photo or audio, onto the timeline, that is different. Everything that is on the timeline is in the project, but it is only a reference or pointer to the original file. If you delete an object (video, photo, audio) from the timeline, you are simply removing the reference to it from the project, not the hard disk. Secondly, anything that is imported onto the timeline (into the project) has to remain on your hard disk at the same location. PhotoStory uses that file (it does not modify it - ever) and if you delete the file from your hard disk, then PhotoStory will not find it and prompt you to navigate to it. If you have deleted it from your hard drive, tough luck. A PhotoStory project is just a set of instructions. It does not actually contain and video, photo or audio files.

John CB