Longtime Fotomagico user. Just upgraded via App store to 4.2. Built a test slide show with thirty slides. Slides are in folder on my desktop. Saved the FM project file to my desktop. Everything was hunky dory when I closed the file last night. Open the file this morning and …all but the first and last slides are blank. If I click on a blank slide and look at the Image options it shows the correct file name, yet the slide just has a small black placeholder dot and no image. Tried toggling the timeline between storyboard and timeline, nada. Quit and reopen, nada. Moved both the project file and slides folder to a new drive, nada. Tired playing the file and it just hangs. Tried moving the FM app window to a second monitor, nada.
Seems similar to the issue in the thread “FotoMagico 4.2 not saving changes.” For grins I tried exporting a standalone player and got a mac system error “The folowing 30 media files could not be copied to the document when saving the slideshow because access was denied by the operation system…”
I also just mentioned to another thread in this forum that I too am using 4.2.1 and had quite a few crashes and also what was mentioned here about blank thumbnails and I had also a similar message like Geoffrey had stating: “was denied by the operation” . For some reason after closing and reopening Fotomagico and reinstalling one of the photos (blank thumbnail) then the other missing blank thumbnails filled back in by themselves.
@Bill, thanks. I just tried that and no go. It just found the one image not any others. At this point the software is not stable enough to use on deadline.