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Power Point viewer glitch?

Discussion in 'Other PC Software' started by macinyart, 2007/11/09.

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    macinyart

    macinyart Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have a CD with a known Power point slide show on it and have viewed the slide show on another computer. I have downloaded Power Point viewer 2007 that works well with other pps and ppt files on my computer. I am using XP Pro. However when I open the CD on my computer it shows no free space but no files. Nothing opens. I don't know if this is a CD issue or a power point viewer issue. The D: drive works just fine with other CDs and DVDs. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks. Jack
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    For grins you might try coping the file off the cd to your hard drive and see if that helps.
     
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    TonyT

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    "However when I open the CD on my computer it shows no free space but no files. "

    Try running the viewer first and browse to cd to load the ppt file and see if the browse function sees the file.
     
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    macinyart

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    Powerpoint viewer Glitch

    I am not sure I made this clear at first. I have a couple of viewers that should handle RAW files like those on the CD. The problem is that no icon shows up when I select the CD in Explorer. I am running XP Pro. The CD shows an icon for the files in a Vista machine just fine. I am not able to select anything when I open the CD, there is no icon at all. I hope you can help.
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    The cd drive could be dirty...

    Some cd drives simply don't like some media types. The one that causes most problems are CD RW disks...
     
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    macinyart

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    Powerpoint viewer Glitch

    Thanks for the tip. I cleaned the drive with some compressed air....no help. In addition this disk that I can't read is also unreadable in another XP Pro machine. It did open in a Vista machine. The postulate now is that the disk was created with Power Point from Office 2007. When I load the disk there is no icon for the files on the disk. It simply looks blank. If I figure it out off the board I will post it up. Thanks.
     
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    TonyT

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    Put it in the vista box, copy the files to the hd, burn a new cd and try out in other comps.
     
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