LOST MY FILE

by **dawnmurray** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:09 pm

HI EVERYONE
I HAVE JUST FINISHED A NICE SHOW OF OUR RECENT HOLIDAY, WHEN ASKED TO SAVE IT IT SEEMS I SAVED IT TO WRONG FILE TYPE CAN YOU HELP ME RETRIEVE IT
THANKS DAWN
IM RUNNING WINDOWS VISTA! :oops:

by **gpsmikey** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:14 pm

Dawn -- if all you did was save it to a wrong type, make a copy of
the file you saved it to and simply change the extension back to
.psh (you might even want to use a new name so it doesn't
try to overwrite any backup versions). If that solves it, you are
good to go, otherwise, you will need to open one of the backup
versions in the same folder.

mikey

by **dawnmurray** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:05 am

hi mickey
please forgive my inexperience ( it all goes well till it goes wrong) how do i change file name ? where do i find file to change? program gave me the option to select psh or psx i think i chose the psx when i click on to play it tells me windows cannot play this file can you explain a bit more
thanks once again
dawn

by **gpsmikey** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:45 am

Hmmm -- I'm not sure what a psx file format is and I am at work trying to wake up
this morning :lol:

first thing I would suggest you do is make a sub directory from where you are
working then copy any files with the showname you were working on that end
in .bak, .b01 etc to that directory so you have a copy of the backup versions
at least. I will have to see if I can figure out what a psx file is - from your
initial post, I was hoping you had simply managed to create a name with the
wrong extension on it (but the right stuff still in the file).

As far as renaming a file, there are many ways, but the two most comon are
to either right click the file and select "rename" (seems like right clicks solve
most of my problems) or to click the file name, then click it again (not double
click - that will try to run it). The filename will changed to a highlighted boxed
name that you can either click inside the string and change letters around or
simply change the whole name/extent, however, in this case, it sounds like it
was more a case of it actually saved it in a different format, not just a case
of naming the file wrong.

mikey

by **dawnmurray** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:27 am

mickey
sorry its a pxc file ive saved it to sorry...........................

dawn

by **gpsmikey** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:46 am

I'm not sure just what you have managed to do -- according to the Producer manual:
PXC Files (Photodex Cache File) are created
when you load a ProShow Producer slide
show. The PXC file is a cache file, which means
that ProShow Producer can access it very
quickly to load the show that you are working
on. This file is generated automatically while
you work on your show, and it can be deleted
at any time. You cannot load a show or recover
lost content from a PXC file.

If you saved to a PXC file somehow then closed and opened Producer
again, I suspect that file has been overwritten/trashed so you may have
to work from a backup copy.

See if you can find the file you saved to. Make a copy of it so you don't
trash it any more if possible. You may have to go back to your latest backup
file and work from there. Search the forum for backup information -- I know
in the past, working with the backup files has been discussed (I think Briancbb
was talking about it recently). I would still go with my suggestion to make
copies of all the files starting with your showname.bak or .b?? where the
?? is a two digit number to another directory for safe keeping until you get
it back again.

Good luck !
mikey

by **briancbb** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:12 am

Dawn

As Mikey has said, if you are not sure what you are doing first of all make another directory and copy all the .bak and .b** files to it. (Copy not move), this ensures that you always have a recovery path

Now rename the 'myshow.bak' file to 'myshow.psh' and try loading this into Producer. If you are lucky this should work, and the file maybe your complete show.

Brian

by **toad** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:49 pm

Is there any way to open an ISO file in producer :?:

I lost one show in a project. I have looked in every file on my computer and can't find it. I made it in 2.6 and wanted to make some changes in 3.0 but I don't want to start all over.

by **gpsmikey** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:14 pm

Not really. You can open an ISO and add files, delete files etc, HOWEVER,
what is there is the mpeg2 video and audio streams as chunks (or blobs).
While you can edit a mpeg2 file with various editors, there is really no way
to get back to a "show" format that producer can do anything with (other
than import as a video).

mikey

LOST MY FILE

LOST MY FILE

LOST MY FILE

LOST MY FILE

Who is online