Slide Show won't work

[tdew Profile Private message]

Penny,
How about sending a few of those problem pictures to someone here and see if they cause a problem for someone else? Yours is such an odd problem, but there has to be a reason for it and a solution.

[Penny47 Profile Private message]

Yes I can do that just not sure how to go about it on here.

[tdew Profile Private message]

I've sent you a private message. You can send a couple by email and we'll see what happens.
It sure is a puzzle.

[Penny47 Profile Private message]

Thank you all for all the help you have given me. I have finally sorted it out. I have no idea what I did wrong the 1st time or what I did right now, but this is what I did. I opened up a brand new folder and I transferred the photos from the older PC, using a memory stick. but before I put them on this PC I tried a show from the stick,it worked so then cut all the photos out of the stick and put them in the new folder and as they say "Bob's your Uncle" it worked. Needless to say I am now a very "Happy Camper" and can get on with it.

Penny

[gpsmikey Profile Private message]

I was going to suggest sending me a couple of the problem ones, but it seems you have sorted it out. Glad all is well now. Hmmm - in thinking about it a bit, it has the smell of a protection issue - not sure just how windows tracks the info, but some files it considers "downloaded from the internet" or some such thing and treats them differently than local files. I have run into that issue before, but don't remember all the details of it.

mikey

[Penny47 Profile Private message]

Thanks Mikey, Actually what got me thinking was the fact that when I tried to e-mail them to someone it would not let me it told me the document/path was not valid or some such thing. anyhow again many thanks for giving me ideas and suggestions. The dollar is starting to work in my favor so I shall be keeping a close eye on things to upgrade

Penny

[gpsmikey Profile Private message]

Glad to hear the dollar is working in somebody's favor !!

Your comment about the message "invalid path" is a key part of the puzzle here - something was causing an issue with the path - it may well have been that redirection that windows 7 does with user accounts when they try to copy files to protected areas (like "program files" ). That was why I had asked if you could really see the files in windows explorer (although it may also hide that trick). If you put the images in the C:\Program Files path somewhere, that is probably what you were running into - they should either be in a separate "images" path (possibly even a different drive/partition) or under your user account.

mikey

[tdew Profile Private message]

Wonderful news! Glad you solved your puzzle.