How to Move Photo Slideshow Program and Projects to a New Computer?

Computer hardware and software upgrades are common and even frequent nowadays. Many users have expressed concern that if they can move the slideshows created with Photo DVD Maker to the new computer.

Relax. Photo slideshows created in the old computer can be transferred to a new one. However, please kindly read this guideline thoroughly before you try to do so.

Important Notes:

1. Photo DVD Maker only runs on Windows XP, Vista and the latest Windows 7. There is no Mac version yet. If you MUST and HAVE TO use Photo DVD Maker on Mac computer, please refer to this article How to run Photo DVD Maker on Mac computer

2. You don’t have to buy Photo DVD again in order to use it in the new computer. Just download the latest version of the program to your new computer, install and register it with the license you already have.

3. Exported slideshow DVD/video can’t be edited any more. So you must save the slideshow project (.pdm file) in case you need to made changes latter.

How to use Photo DVD Maker in a new computer?

1. Download the latest version of Photo DVD Maker to your new computer

2. Install the downloaded program

3. Open Photo DVD Maker, click the menu “Help”, select the “Register…” menu item, and then enter your user name and keycode into the registration form.

How to move photo slideshows to a new computer?

Moving photo slideshow projects from an old computer to a new one is not complex, even though you must pay attention to some critical issues. Please follow these steps to transfer your slideshows.

1. Copy slideshow project files to new computer

Photo DVD Maker will create .pdm project file when you save your photo slideshow. Copy the .pdm files to your new computer. Learn more about.pdm file .pdm file

2. Move source photos and music to new computer

This step is easy but totally necessary.

Since the .pdm file only saves links to the photos and music used for slideshow, you must move all source files together with the project files to the new computer, and follow the next step to make sure the Photo DVD Maker program can locate and reload source photos and music.

3. Repair the path to source files

This step is critical. For instance, if you have created a slideshow for your mom’s birthday and the photos in the old computer were stored in this directory:

D:\My Photos\Mom’s Birthday (in the old computer)

Then in the new computer you should create a “My Photos” folder in the Local Disc (D:), and then create a “Mom’s Birthday” subfolder to host the source photos, so that all these photos in your new computer are also stored in the directory of

D:\My Photos\Mom’s Birthday (in the new computer)

Repeat the above steps until you move all source photos and music to the directories that are the same as in the old computer.

Now open your slideshow project, the program will load all photos and music successfully. You can continue to edit and create gorgeous slideshow DVD and slideshow videos.

4. What if the source files were not in the same directory as in the old computer?

Well, in this case, Photo DVD Maker will not be able to load photos or music for the slideshow project.

You will see this message reporting details of the missing photos:

You will find daisy images (below) show up in the slideshow, they represent missing photos. You have to add photos and music manually, or, more wisely, restore the source images to the old directory as suggested above.