Menu Button Frozen and box window shrunk to nothing

johncraighowells wrote on 3/17/2017, 1:54 PM

Hi, I'm using an old Movie Edit Pro MX Plus - I've been mastering a DVD and I've come back to the menu - which I designed with screenshots etc - and one of my buttons has misshaped itself frozen. It's shrunk its window to nothing so I can't select it to change its position etc. I can't even delete it. I was not like this when I closed the file before. Really need to sort this out as I have people waiting for this film. Any ideas?

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johnebaker wrote on 3/17/2017, 2:45 PM

. . . . one of my buttons has misshaped itself frozen. It's shrunk its window to nothing so I can't select it to change its position . . . .

When you hover the mouse over where this button is it will change to a 4 headed arrow, while it is showing this arrow you should be able to click on the button - the orange or red handles should appear very closely grouped together - and then delete it.

If you cannot they try loading one of the backups that MEP saves every 10 mins (assuming you did not turn this off or change the time interval).

Using File, Load backup project navigate to the folder containing the project and you should see a series of files named Project name_BAK0 to Project name_BAK9 if you have the full set - load the latest one if this is corrupt then load the previous one and so on.

Note: check the data and time of the BAK files they are a rotating sequence of 10 and the latest one may not be the last one in the sequence.

Once you have a successful load and the menu is OK save the project with a new name.

HTH

John EB