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i recently asked this question Have an hp digital camera i put the vids on my computer, one day i couldnt open

i have learned If the images have moved from one folder to another folder the album files willnot open. As the ablum files will open based on the image path. now what do i do? ive been working on trying to figure this problem for a while now. i am so extremely green at all of this i need major help. i need it explained to me.

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1. Here's an answer that may be a help. "First, the PVM file is not the actually picture file. It is an album file used by HP programs to let them know where the picture is really stored. The actually picture is probably in a folder in your "My Documents folder" called "Scans" or "My Pictures" or something like that. The easiest way to find your wayward pictures is to do search for jpeg and jpg files using windows search. If you haven't deleted anything lately the picture is probably still on your harddrive somewhere. Second, this is the bad part. Just because there's an album file doesn't mean the picture was actually stored on your computer. The file (*.PVM) could have been created when you hooked up your camera (or whatever) and the hp program showed you the pictures that were still stored and never copied to your harddrive. Third, You can actually open the PVM file with notepad and see the location of the real files in the folder. There's alot of stuff in the file, but what you are looking for looks like this: mpv:id="IDAAB0YI_Source"><LastURL>file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/*******/My%20Documents/My%20Scans/2005-08%20(Aug)/scan0004.jpg</LastURL><Metadata There will be a line like this for every file (picture) listed in that album." This comes from: http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6035_102-0.html%3Bjsessionid=abc6v7Ass2J4egBvKWozr?forumID=39&threadID=150771