A project file is *.mswmm and contains only markers to the video.

Copying just that file to CD will not have the requisite video or photos
attached so that's why you get the red x's and a black screen.

You will have to copy the *.mswmm file back to HDD if you lose the original.

But if you also lose the video or photo files when the computer goes bad the
project file will be of no use.

Make backups of all those also.


Gord


On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:39:00 -0700, star <star@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I am wondering how to ssave my unfinished windows movie maker project to a cd
>or flash drive rather than having it only on my computer's harddrive. I can
>save it to the hard drive, but when I try to save it to a cd or a flash drive
>it will not open the project on another computer. This leads me to believe
>that I do not have the entire project saved correctly. When I try to open
>the project none of my pictures show up on the storyboard, there are red x's
>on the storyboard. When I click the play button I get a black screen. I
>would just like to be able to have a backup of the entire project somewhere
>other than my harddrive, you never know when a computer might crash and I
>don't want to start over.