Hi Mary
Thank you for your very quick response. I had not copied the .cspub files.
It has taken me a long time to suss out where I was originally going wrong.
However, I did as you you suggested and then I came across a problem. I
managed to copy the entire Content Library folder (including the .cspub
files) to my Lap Top so that it replaced the Lap Top's existing Contents
Library folder and it copied fine. However, I came across a problem when I
ran Publisher on the Lap Top and it complained about a lot of images being
corrupt. I then found the only images that appeared to be handled correctly
were those whose file names (in the Content Library folder) did not have any
of the letters b, c, p, s or u in their names. All Content Library file
names where the files did contain such a character would not work and
Publisher came up with a "corrupt file" message.
I then went back to my main computer and checked the Content Library folder
and sure enough all .jpg and .cspub files in that folder had all of the
characters b, c, p, s or u missing, with a space character in its place! I
thought at first that this might be some sort of random corruption due to a
bug, but on looking again at this problem it appears to be deliberately done
by the powers that be, otherwise if it was a simple bug I think the missing
letters in the file names in the Contents Library Folder would have been
random whereas in fact any character that appears in the extension "cspub"
gets ommitted from the filename in both the .jpg and the .cspub files in the
Content Library folder. For example, if I insert a jpg image into a
Publisher document in the normal way and then right click it and select Add
to Content Library and then give it the name:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwzyz
.. . . and then go to c:\users\<my user
name>\appdata\local\microsoft\publisher and open up the Content Library
folder I can see the file names:
a defghijklmno qr t vwzyz.jpg
a defghijklmno qr t vwzyz.cspub
Similarly, if I named a picture hopscotch I would see the following files in
the Content Library folder:
ho ot h.jpg
ho ot h.cspub
The names in the content library box against the thumbnails in Publisher
itself are correct, so presumably the correct name is stored in the .cspub
file along with the data of the original full size jpg, but the file names
in the Content Library folder are corrupt.
This happens on both of my machines, a desktop running Vista Home Premium
with Publisher 2007 and a laptop running Vista Business with Publisher 2007.
Does anyone else have this problem? Time consuming but I am determined to
get there in the end.
Frustrating stuff, this!
MoMo (Maureen)