BrianN

I found the problem! It appears that the P2E user interface allows erroneous entries of comments. On close examination of the .pte file with Notepad I found the following sequence: CommentsCount=1 Comment1=August-Manchester Commonwealth games Sound=@ I edited it to CommentsCount=2 Comment1=August-Manchester Comment2=Commonwealth games Sound=@ and the show started working again. I have other multiple-line comments in the show which have entered correctly. I remember groping about trying to find the right keyboard combination to enter multiple comment lines and I presumably found one that the user interface accepts but interprets incorrectly. Hope this helps. Brian

Well, I tried downloading the beta version of pte4.0. This gives me a different message from version 3 on my failed show. the message is "Sorry! Incorrect version of project file ". Does that suggest anything? I'll continue trying your suggestions. Version 4 appears to work fine with my other projects.

Thanks for the suggestions so far. To give a little more detail: I'm using version 3.80 The show has about 130 slides of about .5Mbytes each. There is a single background music track. I abandoned an attempt to use the automatic adjust feature since this didn't work properly. Instead, I simply adjusted the duration per slide to match the music. I haven't used the timeline, just simple arithmetic. Pictures to exe is now in a strange state. Yes, I've tried reinstalling without any benefit. If I start the program by double clicking on my (now failed) project, I get the message Write file error, the program starts, but doesn't open the project. I can then create a new project which works just fine. Having done this and exited, I can then work with all my other presentations. The only change of which I'm aware between the project working and not working. (It happened within an hour or so and I made no deliberate changes outside P2exe) was the introduction of a new slide. I'll check the data file in this area using notepad. I can't, of course, view my settings in P2exe, since it refuses to open the file. Thanks, Brian

I seem to have a problem with a project that I've been working on for a week or two. I've found working with Pictures to Exe on the whole really good, but there is an occasional problem when creating a slideshow .exe. I think the main problem (simply failing to generate the .exe) went away when I upgraded to the current version on the website. However, yesterday, I got a more serious problem. An attempt to generate a .exe failed and I can no longer open the project. Every time I attempt to do so, I get a File write error from Pictures to Exe. I think the problem was only associated with a relatively large project. The .pte file looks fine when opened with Notepad. Has anyone been here before and got a workaround? Thanks, Brian