Re: Collections - how to get rid of all files easily by PapaJohn
PapaJohn
Mon Mar 10 00:16:51 PDT 2008
you're welcome.... as I drove out of a parking lot today, there was a car
zipping down and into my lane... I smiled as he wizzed by, thinking '...
wouldn't it be funny to be broad-sided by a Papa John delivery car... maybe'
I'd have gotten some free slices in the accident.
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PapaJohn (MVP)
"Paisley" <Paisley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC985973-A281-4919-B831-C33B38126CD5@microsoft.com...
> okay, thanks. although I guess in this particular case since I wasn't thru
> with that one project and hadn't edited everything and added to
> storyboard/timeline they would be needed in there. I just played with it
> more and am trying to organize the files better so I'll know what clips
> added
> are actually new ones and not get them mixed up with the old. Once I'm
> done
> with this project and make it a movie then I'll probably delete out that
> file.
>
> Thanks again for all the helpful advice PapaJohn (mmm, pizza sounds good
> right now, LOL).
>
> "PapaJohn" wrote:
>
>> the project files are totally independent of the colllection clips...
>> when
>> you open a project file, the clips won't go back to the collections as
>> they're not needed there... they'll still be in the project
>> storyboard/timeline as they were when you last saved the project.
>>
>> I typically run with a blank slate of collections. When I'm in my file
>> manager and see a project file I want to work on, I double-click it
>> (MSWMM)
>> and Movie Maker opens quickly with the project in it, quickly because it
>> has
>> no clips in collections to check out as it opens.
>>
>> --
>> website references are to www.papajohn.org
>>
>> PapaJohn (MVP)
>>
>>
>> "Paisley" <Paisley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:7D83ECF6-FC4C-46CC-B5BD-01426F7BB16D@microsoft.com...
>> > Okay, so if I delete out that file (MEDIATAB0.DAT), when I want to
>> > pull
>> > up
>> > the original project I was working on (with the 50+ files), when I open
>> > up
>> > the project file, then all the files that were in the collections
>> > section
>> > will come back? If so, will it include the added files since the
>> > project
>> > was
>> > last saved?
>> >
>> > I wish they would have created this a little differently when making
>> > this
>> > software...
>> >
>> > Thanks PapaJohn for your help!!! :-)
>> >
>> > "PapaJohn" wrote:
>> >
>> >> see my website's Manage Your Files > Collections page... the backup
>> >> section
>> >> tells you where that file that stores all the info is... delete it and
>> >> Movie
>> >> Maker will create a new clean slate as it opens the next time.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> website references are to www.papajohn.org
>> >>
>> >> PapaJohn (MVP)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Paisley" <Paisley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:546F0729-5914-4F02-9792-E0CADD38A67C@microsoft.com...
>> >> > Is there a setting or something that will delete all files in the
>> >> > collections
>> >> > folder when I start a new project? I just created a big project
>> >> > with
>> >> > about
>> >> > 50 files (video, pics, etc) and once I saved the project and went
>> >> > into
>> >> > the
>> >> > Movie Maker later for a different project (not going to use any of
>> >> > the
>> >> > files
>> >> > I priorly used) they were ALL there. There's got to be a way so
>> >> > that
>> >> > they
>> >> > disappear so I know what file is what and not have to go thru all
>> >> > the
>> >> > others,
>> >> > isn't there?
>> >> >
>> >> > thx
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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