Chains

lebo · Post by **lebo** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:02 am

I have saved my slide show. I then burnt a disk (DVD-RW). The next day, I went to retrieve the file and burn another disl without making changes. I tried to open the file and it said something about the slides were not linked. Press to link. Every slide became a picture of a chain.
How do I get rid of the chains and get my slides back. I followed every instruction carefully.
Help me please

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:14 am

I cant imagine that you followed all advice. What happened here is this: When you opened your project again, PS could not find the images where these were supposed to be and it asked you to relink to them. You must have pointed it to the wrong location.

I would simply copy the CD if I wanted another one. If you ant to change something on it, delete the folder your project is linked to now (or rename it) and open your project again. When asked to re-link to the images, pay attention to where you direct PS.

lebo · Post by **lebo** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:50 pm

I tried to open 10 files I did at different times and all turn up the "Missing Link List" Some I have not opened since I saved them several weeks ago. All of the files are invalid. What caused that?

On the file I made a DVD-RW of, I have sent it out to a professional shop to make copies. I couldn't tust U Lead.

On the "Missing Link List"
it asks for: Click "(OK) to remove missing files from your project". When I click OK they all diseapear 544 of them. I didn't save the screen. If I did I would have a blank scren.
Next choce: "To locate the missing files in your project", click Relink.
The relink screen list all of the image numbers. It says that more than 1 file has not been relinked sucessfully. From there it is a dead end and I get ascreen full of broken chains in each slide box
"Click continue to for missing files." OK brings up a blank screen, I guess because all the files are not linked.

What's wrong? Should I give up and go to another slide show provider, that is perhaps, not as elaborate, and will give me a usefull product?

Norman Liebow

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:17 pm

If you point the program to the location of your files, it will relink them. If you do nothing but click OK, you will get what you got, broken links. When the program askes you to relink, you need to go through the motions from there on in to find the missing files on your PC. Once you find them from within, all should be well.

lebo · Post by **lebo** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:59 am

Heinz, I am sorry that I am not that good with the computer BUT I do not understand what you mean when you suggest, "If you point the program to the location of your files". What do you mean by that ? How do you point a program?

I understand how I got broken links by the OK click.

You then say," When the program asks you to relink, you need to go through the motions from there on in to find the missing files on your PS".
When the program asks me to relink, what do you mean, "to go through the motions from there on in to find the missing files on your PC".

What motions? I would be better served if you were able to identify what key strokes and when to get the files linked and restore the file.

I am sorry but I find the program frustrating when I can't get it to work and don't know why.

Why did the files unlink?

Thand you.

Norman Liebow

Post by **Ron P.** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:11 am

Lebo,

When it asks you to Relink, you need to browse/navigate to the drive, folder where you have the images on your computer. For example if you have your images stored on your computer under My Pictures/Vacation and the image that it is asking you to relink is say Image-01.jpg, then you need to locate that image, by clicking on the Relink button, then in the window that opens, go to where Image-01.jpg is located, in this example would be My Documents/My Pictures/Image-01.jpg. Select it, and then the program should indicate that the image has been relinked. If all your images are in that folder it may say that all images have been relinked..

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:20 am

Sorry I can't be specific enough to make you understand. Whilst I do own a version of DVD PictureShow, I don't use it anymore because MediaStudioPro makes a much better job of it and I use that all the time for my video work.

It happens quite often that a program cannot find the source image files when you reopen a project. It will tell you that some files are missing and ask you if you want to relink these. When you answer that with yes, it should give you a "Browse" key that you can click. This will then take you to the familiar WindowsExplorer screen where you navigate to the folder where these images are stored. Once you find that, click ok and all should be well. That's what I meant when I said "go through the motions". I hope this will help you sort this out.

I'm not sure why this happens exactly, it could be that the program stores an absolute position for the files when you author the project to disk. If subsequently you re-open the project but have added or deleted files from your HDD, this location may not be accurate anymore.

Be that as it may, if the files are still on your machine and you point PS to the location of these files, it should work. Just clicking on "OK" without locating the files within the PS program, will make you lose the connection.