Im done crying now: But way to find/recover non recovered presentation?

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a_gunslinger

Just spent 45 minutes recording via record narration a presentation.
Used wireless lav kit plugged through mic jack on laptop. Tested fine.
After 45 minutes of fun filled recording all was well....... UNTIL I
chose escape at end of show and was presented the "Save Recording Audio
with presentation?" box. I clicked yes and was then presented with the
dreaded Windows Error box asking me to Report the error to MS.
Fortunately, there was a check box for recover file. Unfortunately, on
next reload it did not recover it.

This is Office 2003 running on an XP SP2 high end laptop.

Good none
Bad no likely to get this speaker to redo this.

Anyway to hunt down the recording (at least)? Hoping it was stored
somewhere since it did actually record.
 
G

Glen Millar

Hi,

Are there any sound files in the folder where the presentation is stored?
Did you embed them or link?

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Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

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a_gunslinger

Not sure I had the chance to do either. Had the presentation open,
chose Slide Show/Record Narration, selected Begin. Went thru entire
presentation with narration and clicked esc to bring up the Save option
- but thats where PPT tanked with Error Reporting Screen witrh option
to Recover (though recover didnt work).
 
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a_gunslinger

Therein liews the rub. It failed to Recover the file even though I had
it selected to do so in the error reporting screen when it tanked. The
original file we opened and then chose to Record Narration in does not
show any audio files. It would be the recovered version (with
differences/changes from original) that would contain the audio. But
we cant locate the recovered version.
 
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Austin Myers

a_gunslinger said:
Therein liews the rub. It failed to Recover the file even though I had
it selected to do so in the error reporting screen when it tanked. The
original file we opened and then chose to Record Narration in does not
show any audio files. It would be the recovered version (with
differences/changes from original) that would contain the audio. But
we cant locate the recovered version.
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Did you try it just to make certain? It only takes a few seconds to export
as HTML and look in the resulting folders.



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia, PFCPro, PFCExpress
http://www.pfcmedia.com
 
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a_gunslinger

Thanks Austin. I did just export to HTML and browsed the folders. All
the other audio but no audio files for the recorded narration. Great
tip/idea, but it wasnt there. Surely it has it stored somewhere doesnt
it? Would be a large file.... what format does it save a narration
as?
 
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Austin Myers

a_gunslinger said:
Thanks Austin. I did just export to HTML and browsed the folders. All
the other audio but no audio files for the recorded narration. Great
tip/idea, but it wasnt there. Surely it has it stored somewhere doesnt
it? Would be a large file.... what format does it save a narration
as?
Click to expand...


If it didn't come out with the HTML export I'm afraid it's gone. Narrations
are stored internally (hence the reason to export to HTML) in the
presentation and I know of no other way to get to it. Sorry...


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia, PFCPro, PFCExpress
http://www.pfcmedia.com
 
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