Barry Beckham

A contact on my own forum reported that he suddenly became unable to download his own zipped slide show from cloud storage via the Google Chrome browser. Google Chrome isolated his zipped slide shows as malicious and prevented him from downloading them. It gave no option to correct the mistake and allow the file to be run. I downloaded a slide show from this forum earlier today and the same thing happened to me, so it does appear there has been a change within Google Chrome that is causing this. We discovered that Google Chrome has it's own built in phishing and maleware program and that was preventing a genuine file from being downloaded. Once, we could always be assured that zipping an exe file would protect the exe within from over zealous virus protection software, but perhaps not now. The solution is to go into Google Chrome settings > advanced settings and un-tick the phishing and maleware protection. Most of us have other dedicated virus protection to do that for us and Google's over protection is of little help if it also stops legitimate files from being downloaded and opened.

Brick walls are pretty hard and thick

PS when I open the thumb on your "Discarded" show it is the same size more or less as the original. Well of course it does. I created the thumbnail at 120px square, so it's not a surprising that it shows up in SSC at 120px square. How can software take a 16:9 image and make it square anyway? It has to crop it and why leave that decision to computer code. Create your own thumbnail and then you can select something bold and interesting to appear on it. Make it to look attractive for your show. Set your crop parameters to 120px by 120px in your image editor and the job takes seconds. If your a Photoshop user, save the crop parameters as a pre-set and name it SSC thumbnail. Then you have it to use all the time.

Perhaps its worth a tiny little effort to crop a selection from an image at 120px square yourself. The advantage of course is you can pick a section of an image that looks interesting in a small thumbnail. The alternative is allowing software to decide what part of your image is displayed and I would rather make that choice myself.

screenshot/thumbnail is the same thing. I wonder if this is a similar issue to one I have experienced recently. Something has been changed by Windows Explorer recently. (a few months ago) and it impacted on my ability to add links on my web site. The process appeared to work well, but showed a similar problem to what you describe here. It was OK one day and not the next. My web guru was the one who discovered the problem and to get around it I have to use another browser (Google Chrome) to add the links. Could this issue be something like that and another browser would work OK. I am away from home at present, but if I were not I would suggest you send the zipped file to me so I could try uploading it for you from my end. Not a great plan with a slow mobile internet connection though, but perhaps someone else could try that option for you

I use Windows Explorer and advanced mode. SnapCam. The thumbnail is a part of the upload and you can take a 120px crop of a picture from your slide show and it needs to be included when you are uploading your show. If I leave that off the upload does not complete and I find myself back as the disclaimer page.

Raymond I had some difficulties like you, but after a while I realised what I needed to do. I click to upload the file and allow that to complete Then put something in everyone of the fields below. I think you can leave the changes field, but why not just put new upload in there. Make sure you also include the thumbnail 120 pixels square, or once again the upload fails. Its important that you add tags PC or Mac or both, without that my uploads fail. Try it again, one step at a time and see how you go

Igor If a user replaces a sound file, it's not likely that the file lengths will be the same and if that impacts on other music on the same track, so what! We all replace slides and then change our mind a few times and its our responsibility to keep track of what we are doing. Same with sound ? Would it not work better if when a sound file is replaced, any previous fit to slide options are deleted so the user can re-apply them if they want

I don't expect Igor to give us a date, but for those who demonstrate PTE and get the question all the time, I think the time has come for an up date of where wnsoft are with it.

It would be nice to have an update from wnsoft on where we are with a Mac version. I do get asked this question quite a bit now.

Well, when you're at home with the project file it isn't an issue. I just had a thought I might run a show I made some time ago on the Grey Card, but given limited time for the demo I won't run it without knowing the length. I suppose if that info could easily be included into the mouse over info or the properties, Igor would have done so. Its not the first time I needed a memory jogger to how long a previosuly made exe would be

As I write this I am sitting in our caravan just getting some files ready on the laptop for a demo at club in Sydney tonight. I would dearly love to be able to tell the length of a slide show from the completed exe file. A mouse over in Explorer does not include the length of the show and I now can't remember how long it was. Ayone have any ideas that I don't

Well, enter the competition and see how far you get

Jan Managed to view your show on our iPad. That is a nice way to put together a show like that, it worked extremely well

I am not at home right now and using an old laptop, so perhaps the clue is there. I have just looked at what version we are using on this old Vista laptop we use for travelling and it's IE 9. I don't doubt that if we upgraded it would be fine. I think it's Internet Explorer where the issues are

Jacek Its not good practice to send someone a large file via email, even when you can. It ties up the email for some for so long you can think something is wrong and re-boot. The options mentions above are free services that allow you to first upload a zipped copy of your slide show to their cloud storage. Generally it takes quite some time for a big file to upload, bit it will work OK in the background. Once uploaded you can generate an address of where your file is located and send just that link to people in an email. They can click that link and download your slide show at their convenience. www.mediafire.com is one and www.dropbox.com is another.

For what its worth all I can see is the black holding area on both posts, no video.

Surely that is because the window applies both the options you select in the main tab and those in the trantion tab of the Slide Options. If you had something else set, then you're effectively replacing those settings. If you want the background for a number of slides, you may find the Project Options is the way to go

Hard to argue with indepth logic like that. Was it a leap year ? This will be very hard for you to accept, but you did something WRONG with the paths to the slide shows. Think of the web. One letter wrong in the address, or a comma typed instead of a dot and the computer cannot find the site. Its looking in the wrong place. When you build menus, the address string is the vital part, but if we browse for them, we often get an address string like D/slideshows/2014/mystuff/the jackass.exe All you need in the string is "the jackass.exe" if you put everything in one folder.

Listen to what Peter is saying. He's right and if he wasn't how could I make a sample of a menu and put it on a disk or in a download for anyone else in the world to run. It works fine and the proble here is your paths are wrong

I don't think it has been addressed and at one time it would do the same with music if you went outside PTE (prior to V8) and saved a sound file over the original. I started to get into the habit of changing names, or closing PTE and reopening it. You have to force it to refresh, which can be a nuisance, but probably more confusing for a new user

Don't forget smart technology. Last tme I had a drive failing, the PC told me before it failed. On that occasion it wasn't the C drive, but one of the other storage drives, but I was impressed with how the S.M.A.R.T. techie stuff worked

Peter. Its usually me who puts my foot in it and you who is the diplomat. I restrained my last post and then you said exactly what was on my mind

Peter Sorry, I didn't word my post very well. I didn't mean you personally steered me towards Power2Go, but someone on this forum did

Well, all I can say is good luck trying, but it sounds a bit odd to me. Surely more of the 4:3 versions will be below peoples heads than a 16:9 Raise your screen ?