Some project files can't be found so it quits

[spurrymoses]

I'm using DVDWS2 and apparently some of the files that are used in the project can't be found.

Here's the error message when I open the project (sic exactly as written) "Some files can't be found will cause project can't be opened"

Either I'm drinking too much or that message is written by a very well trained orangutan

After this message, it returns me to the main window.
Are my options really this hopeless. Is there a way I can find out what the missing files are and fix it up?

[Devil]

http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewforum.php?f=3

[DarrenD]

Have you tried opening the project in DVDWS and selecting "Save As", tick the "Package" button and browse to your desired destination folder. This will cause all resources to be copied to that same folder. Then DVDWS should translate the "full paths".

[spurrymoses]

Actually, I can't Open the Project because it fails with the error message and then doesn't open. So, no project is open and the 'Save' menu is disabled.

Nevertheless, I ended up recreating the project. It was quite a pain, but none of my projects are that complex, so it wasn't too bad.

[abrenz]

Same orangutan "English."
I'd rather not have to rebuild this DVD. It's a client's home construction diary and there are 9 motion menus showing the different phases of the build.

The file it can't open is in the "Menu" subdirectory of the main project directory.

(Oh... and Devil's link just goes back to the DVDWS main forum page)

[sjj1805]

The error is telling you a file or files are missing from your original project.
Have you renamed or deleted any of them. If they have been deleted are they still in your recycle bin?

I am reading this from my workplace (quiet period on nightshift) so not at my "Video Machine" at the moment but I remember having the same problem some time ago and recall looking at the directory containing the project. One of the files there can be opened with notepad and lists the files used in the project. shouldn't be too hard to locate which one.
Then you can just check to see whats missing.

[abrenz]

I'll look through to see which DVDWS file lists the elements of the project. The file that it says isn't there, though, actually IS there. I'm making a small assumption here, because the error message only lists the first 20 or so characters of the filename and there IS one in the directory that matches.

Here's the error message:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Some files can't be found will cause project can't be opened

Unable to open the file Z:\Conneally vids\DVD
projects\House\Menu\3b0652d1-73ec-40da-b25b-30eb5b

...................................[OK]
[2003572]
[200358:113242:689]

-----------------------------------------------------------------
The directory contains a file named:
3b0652d1-73ec-40da-b25b-30eb5b6385f8.upx

I'll update this if the search reveals any new info.

[sjj1805]

Back at home now so had a look at what I did.
If you look in the DVDWS2 project Directory (The place you specified when you started a new project) you will find an entry that has a *.dws extension.

If you open it with WORDPAD or Quickview Plus (do not use NOTEPAD - you get gobbledegook)
then search for "AVI" it will find all AVI files that were used.
Repeat the search from the beggining of the document but this time look for MPG to list any MPG files used.

If you have included any sound files, again go to the start of the document (Press Ctrl plus the 'Home' key together)
this time do searches for extensions like mp3, mpa, wav or any other format you may have used.

Long winded I know but you do get to check what files you have used.

[u_no_fr]

Hi spurrymoses

I meet the same pb
Have you find a solution ??

Regards

[ploggy]

see this:

http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=10607

[spurrymoses]

I have this problem again. Hopefully this post will be more helpful, although I haven't fixed this one yet.

I haven't deleted any .upx files and I didn't remove or change any files except for the names of 3 mpg files. Actually, it's because I edited them and I just plain forgot I had created a project DVDWS for them a week earlier. So I renamed them back again. Still doesn't work.

I crack open the Hex Editor (http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/f ... /xvi32.htm) and check the original names. I confirmed the file names were correct.

I checked all the .tga's (which is what I used for pictures) they were correct.

I kept on searching for things that I didn't even use like .jpg's and voila, there were some. I found one, inexplicably in e:\temp\x123-478734-sdfdf... etc. ie random characters.
I also found the .upx file reference with the Hex editor. Indeed that file is still there with the same name. So it's not the UPX files (which are in a subdirectory called 'Menu' below your project file). A strange system of storing information, but I digress.

I can't find the .jpg file with random characters that is referenced in E:\Temp. I didn't delete it but what sort of program links to files in the Temp directory and then completely carks it when it can't find it weeks later? Maybe that's not it.

There's another randomly named .jpg in the Temp directory and when I open it I can see that it's the menu template I decided NOT to use. Which is interesting.

Incidentally, there's another reference in the project file to a .jpg I used briefly once and then decided not to use and deleted (within my project). For whatever reason, DVDWS seems to keep references to things that are actually NOT used... so the lesson is this:

Finish a DVDWS project file from start to finish and don't do anything else on your computer inbetween, and don't delete any files you may have used during the project, whether they are actually used in the final version of your project or not.

It might even be possible that changing the size of the video files used, renders your project useless. I re-edited my video files... maybe that's the problem? None of the video have chapter points or anything, it's just 3 videos lined up in a row... but with complicated graphics I really don't want to do again.

[spurrymoses]

Here's the error message:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Some files can't be found will cause project can't be opened

Unable to open the file Z:\Conneally vids\DVD
projects\House\Menu\3b0652d1-73ec-40da-b25b-30eb5b

...................................[OK]
[2003572]
[200358:113242:689]

Abrenz, I've had this error a couple of times and never seen the error message include the filename it couldn't open (chopped off or not). How did you manage it? If only it would do that, the problem would be much easier to fix.

[spurrymoses]

I couldn't figure this one out. I had to start again.
What's almost funny is that having recreated it from scratch, know when I go to burn the DVD, just as it's 'Finalising VOB's' it disappears. Poof! The program just disappears; it doesn't crash, no message just plain goes.

This was repeatable so I just played a bit with the project settings, in the hope that something 'different' would execute something different and avoid the bit of code that does the black-hole routine.

It worked, and I have my DVD. At long last...

[GeorgeW]

Look where your DVD Temp files are located for your project, and then look for a folder in there called CvtTitle (it should be in a folder called DWS_TS. There might be other folders that are used for DWS Conversions (I'm going from memory here).

Remove their contents if you think DWS is trying to re-use them and having an error. DWS should rebuild the stuff that is missing...

Regards,
George

[firdaz]

Hi all,

I'm using Ulead DVD Workshop 2.2
When i try to open the project that i'm working on the program simply
give me the error message:



The file that it says is missing here is:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\ed7cbc19-

which doesnt exist anymore since I saved the project, and reeboted...
not very nice at all...

I know that i didn't move or delete any file from the folder where the
program works or from the temporary folder so, can anyone give me a reason to what's happening ???

I've tried using system recovery, system restore point, and file recovery using Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS, also try hex editor/wordpad to fix the file coding, but that all is useless.

If somebody here meet the same error,
and found the answer....Please help!

Sorry my english is not very well

Thanks

Firdaz