Mike-PDX

Thanks for the help! This approach will work, and I'm implementing it. But feels a little bit counter intuitive. I guess I'm probably set in my ways after my 43+ years in the computer industry. I just keep needing to remind myself that "change is good!" I will need to clear up all the old, now superfluous, files. I don't like the idea of keeping multiple copies of files around to clutter up my drives. There are multiple drives in my workstation already, and I take enough photos that my disk usage is always creeping up. Is there a tutorial somewhere online that walks us through these file management issues? Thanks again, -Mike

OK, your suggestion seems to work, but with a couple of hitches. First, creating the template appears to copy all the project resources, so I need to go back and delete the files from their original location. Second, I occasionally build a simple slide show in another program like Power Point. Now my resources are saved in different folders depending on which software I use. Can I somehow consolidate all these folders together?

This sounds like it might work. Will I need to create this .PT folder for every PTE project? Or can I simply rename the existing folders I already have with this .PT extension? Also, can I then move the group folder to another drive, for example, if I need to for space reasons?

Similar to this issue: (SOLVED) Copy project to another file...slides' locations don't adjust to new folder's location I recently needed to rearrange my hard drives to create room for growth. The result was that all my existing PTE projects lost track of their image and audio files. The only solution I could fine was to manually go through each existing project one at a time to locate "missing" files. My process is to keep the files for each project in a sub-folder of a common directory. They are not stored with the projects themselves. Is there, or could there be in a future update, a way to identify the common root directory one time for all those files? Will I need to do this every time I rearrange my hard drives? It is a painful process.