Microsoft Movie Maker Collections file

Just double-click on a missing item and then navigate to the new location. That will relink the thumbnails in your collection (or in your project storyboard/timeline).

Movie Maker checks each file in the collections folders as it opens.... to be sure it's there. That's what takes so long when there's lots of folders and clips in one. Redoing the folder structure wouldn't speed it up if all the clips are still in it  but in different sub-folders.

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Thanks, but in my version I don't get any folder names until after it has all loaded.

David

Check my website page about managing Movie Maker collections....

http://www.papajohn.org/MovieMaker-Managing-Collections.html

Hi David,

The only way to speed up the loading of your Movie Maker is to organize your temporary files. I suggest you to create different folders for each file/classes of files.

If your drop list is too large/too many and you are working in a collection toward the bottom, you will need to collapse it’s branches, and then scroll down to it, or use the locator.

Collections are arranged in alphabetical order and there are no other sorting options. Appropriately name them so the sort order places them where you want them. Creative naming includes using leading spaces to move the collection up to the top of the drop list, even if the name begins with the letter ‘Z’. A double leading space moves an item above a single leading space, regardless of what letter it starts with.

Thanks!