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Working Mechanic |
HI,
I just got a new computer, got web engine on it just fine. I have discs with my web site projects on them and I am trying put them on the new computer. I can open the discs just fine and could go ahead and put them on the new computer and begin work on them but they are not complete all photos on the projects are missing. The clip art is included on my disc as I had copied the entire VM folder on the disc. |
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Honorary Mechanic |
Depending on how you organised your images on the old computer you need to check if they are in the same directory on the new one. If not you have to go through the Image File Paths in the Geometry Editor. I changed the computer myself recently and having images in different folders on the old one I made a change on the new computer assigning one Images folder (where I placed all images I use in one project) for every Project. That will make it easier to change the computer next time.
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Working Mechanic |
Thanks for the help!
I have not put the projects on the computer yet. I have them on a disc. Originally I prepared the photos (crop etc...) in my photoshop program and then put them in the VM clip art folder from there I use them in my project. I copied the disc with all intact. On some of my disaster discs I just dragged the entire VM program including everything. If I open the clip art folder on the disc (any of the discs) there is nothing there under file type(*.ims) but it shows up in (*.*). I can go on the old computer and open the disc from W.E. and the full project comes up fine but to go into the clip art folder the same thing happens. I think I am discovering that now Seems like the problem may have something to do with downloading the updated W.E. The VM program will not access my clip art amymore. For instance (independant of the disaster discs) if I am starting a new project I go to get an image from the clipart folder and no go. |
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Guru 'Power' Mechanic![]() |
If by "updated WE" you mean SiteSpinner Pro, then that has a different install directory to the old WE. Here are the install directories that VM has used:
Web Engine V2: the old Web Engine SiteSpinner V2.7: the current SiteSpinner SiteSpinner Pro: early versions of SiteSpinner Pro SiteSpinner Pro V2: current versions of SiteSpinner Pro. If you switch from one version to another, the location of the ClipArt folder will be different. Your old ClipArt folder will still be there under the old directory name. If you want to continue using the VM ClipArt folder, I suggest you copy your added images from the old to new ClipArt folder. Another way is to use the Geometry Editor "New Dir" function to point your project image paths to the old ClipArt folder. For other updates, the ClipArt folder should remain intact -- and any images you have added will remain there. If you find that is not the case, please let us all know |
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