projects don't load correctly - pics and videos missing

tv195 wrote on 10/5/2011, 10:54 PM

Movie Editor Pro 17 (Version 10.0.11.0) worked fine for me so far until a few weeks ago: I can save my project and everything seems fine, so I exit the program. When I restart Movie Edit Pro the project loads but most of the time there is only a single video or pics showing up. Sometimes recovering previous auto-saved versions (load backup project) helps to restore the content of my project at least partially. Sometimes the data is just lost. Thanks a lot for you help.

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terrypin wrote on 10/7/2011, 1:46 AM

Hi,

Are you getting this dialog window when you reopen a project?

If so, when that happens here then maybe 80% of the time it's down to me, because I've accidentally moved or deleted a file. Following the instructions then restores the full project.

In a minority of cases, for reasons I've never fathomed, MEP is wrong: the file does exist, in the original folder, and so I have to jump through various other hoops to recover.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

 

 

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK. PC: i7 6700K, 4.0 GHz, 32GB with Win 10 pro. Used many earlier versions of MEPP, currently mainly MEPP 2016 & 2017 (Using scores of macro scripts to add functionality, tailored to these versions.)

yawnhockel wrote on 12/2/2012, 5:13 PM

 

Agreeing with Terry on this one. Has happened to me a few times, myself. One thing you might try to correct this in the future is to increase the autosave option in the "Program Settings" dialogue under the "System" tab. There will be an option for an autosave every 7 or 10 minutes. I think the default is 7 minutes. You might try to change that to something like 30 minutes, and just remember to save your projects at critical points in your editing and then save them under new names. This of course, makes a completely new video project file, and if you aren't moving files around, this usually works very well if some other version of the same project should fail for the "unfathomable" reason which Terry cites. (It can be a bit of a head scratcher, for sure.) But I make documentaries, so I use a lot of files, and for whatever reason, sometimes those files get skipped by Magix. This is why I save my project under a chosen name, then I open a "new project" and copy and paste all of the video objects from my first project into the second one and then save it with a different name like: _backup or something which indicates that it is a "spare" copy of the project. Hope that helps, it has always worked for me to use this precautionary method.

terrypin wrote on 12/3/2012, 2:36 AM

But I see no feedback or thank you from the OP in the almost 2 months since my reply...

 

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

 

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK. PC: i7 6700K, 4.0 GHz, 32GB with Win 10 pro. Used many earlier versions of MEPP, currently mainly MEPP 2016 & 2017 (Using scores of macro scripts to add functionality, tailored to these versions.)