How can I fool a program into thinking my "Local C drive" is the "C" drive?

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January 1, 2019
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I don't expect anyone to know this on this forum but I thought I'd ask.

Long story short....... after processing about 600 photos in Photoshop for a job I did 8 years ago, I put the photos into a digital slide show program, ProShow Producer.

I now need to resurrect that show, but ProShow is looking for the photos on the "C" drive, which is what the C drive was called on the computer I had 8 years ago. My new computer's C drive is called the "Local C drive", not "C". Because of this, ProShow cannot find the files. I would have to browse and point the program to each and every one of the 600 photos.

I don't think renaming my current "Local C drive" to "C" would be a great idea because it could spook other programs looking for files it created and knows are on the "Local C drive".

Does anyone know a way I can make (or get the program) to think that the photos are on the "C" drive? Windows 10 computer.

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JJMack

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Why would Proshow Producer be looking for a disk with a disk label C ? What are you doing in the proshop application. I would think a Slide Show producing application would be able to use images from any disk your machine can access one way or another. Can you post a screen capture showing what you are doing when you get the error meassage. Why are you asking your question in a Photoshop user forum? I think your in the wrong place try this site: ProShow Producer - The world's leading professional video slideshow software.

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TerryLn22Author

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The reason that I'm here is because I don't think ProShow has a forum, and to get help from them anymore via their email only support, takes about 5 days, if ever. They're basically going out of business.

The crux of the matter with the issue at hand is that the ProShow "show file" (the file that knows where all the photos are) needs to access files from the same spot where it saved them to, or it can't load them. I would have to point it to each and every one of the 600 photos in the show so I'm trying to avoid that. If I can put them in a path that is EXACTLY the same, then it will say "Ah, here they are" and load them all up automatically. However, on my new Win10 computer the C drive is not called "C", but "Local C drive", so the ProShow show file can't automatically load the files.

JJMack

Community Expert

You save them 8 years ago on you old C drive are they on your current c drive? Have you tried changing the label? You were given a link to the Proshow Produces forums there seems to be some activity there.

JJMack

gener7

Community Expert

A symbolic link might be the answer: The Complete Guide to Creating Symbolic Links (aka Symlinks) on Windows

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TerryLn22Author

Inspiring

Interesting but it looks very complicated and not sure it will do the trick.

In the example at that link, it shows that the root directory would be changed from C to "C:\Link To Folder" "C:\Users\Name\Original Folder". Just the "link to folder" would throw ProShow off completely. The name that it was years ago has to be exact, which was something like C/users/name/job32/Ron/images. That can't be changed or Proshow won't find it. Not sure if adding a "point to" will do it or not.

gener7

Community Expert

I should stop here. I'm a Mac user with some Windows experience and don't know a thing about Proshow.

But this forum would most likely: ProShow Enthusiasts if you can't get support from the company.

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