How to trasfer my projects from C drive to External HD

[kramaraju]

My C drive is almost full . I need to trasfer picaloader projects to External Hard drive. I copied one big project to it , but when I tried to open it , I could not see any pics although I can still see thumnails in project. what is correct method for it.






Thanks in advance.

[Anon6970]

I'm afraid your screwed....this is the worst thing about this program.
If you move a project from a drive and directory structure, the destination must be identical or you get the the result you mentioned. example: project on comp1 C:\documents and settings\my pictures comp2 C:\documents and settings\my pictures. I hope they fix this somehow in ver 2.0 because it totally sucks...

Peace,
Anon

[vbach]

This problem isn't too difficult to resolve, although it does require direct manipulation of one of the database files: PicaInfo.dat. The PicaInfo.dat file is located under the <projectname>.files directory. First copy your project directory (<projectname>.files) and the plp file (<projectname>.plp) to the new hard drive location. Change directory to the <projectname>.files directory and make a backup of PicaInfo.dat. Open PicaInfo.dat with a text editor (wordpad will work). Look for the old path for the project, it shoud look something like
<k>C:\path\to\<projectname.files\</k>
Perform a global search and replace for
C:\path\to\
with, something like
G:\newpath\to\
and restart PicaLoader. You should now be able to view your relocated files.