Microsoft® TV Photo Viewer

Can anyone help please.The above is an old program,unfortunatly for me all my photographs are on that program and due to computer problems,I had to change hardrives,now in order to open my photo's I need to download that old program,which microsoft says it stopped supporting on July 1st?
Pleeeeeeeeeez help,where can I download this old program?Ive tried Limewire,all the microsoft sites,download.com.....
This is not the device,but software for I think they are PDI files...
Does anyone still have this old program?:

Hi Old HD,
I appreciate your reply,Ive tried download.com,perhapes I can send you a file(album)so as you can see what Im talking about?
Let me know.
Cheers

[harry12]

Hi Greybuffalo,
I too don't understand the problem -
Am I right in thinking these are still photo-files and not corrupted?
But you "lost" a familiar program that allows you to sort/show them?

Until that's cleared, I can suggest "ifranview" - written by a German (?) it operates in English(phew!) and can take picture-files of one type and convert them....


Let the Forum know what you want to do with these photo-files and maybe get a list of modern alternatives. I suspect the Microsoft product was fairly basic as photo is one area where the likes of Adobe (photoshop) and Coral(PaintShopPro) are really the most popular - although IMHO both are too difficult to use "effectively" being far too complicated if you ever spend time doing anything else.

Whatever you do make a Backup, just to be on the safe-side...you know it makes sense!
Just a thought, why don't you have the original program disc(s)?

[snowmonkey]

Hey greybuffalo,

I have seen your post on different forum, I could swear that it was you posting the same question somewhere else with no luck ....Anyways, I have search a lot to find the software you are looking for but no luck, I will take you on the offer of sending the database file....see if I can get the software engineers working here can somehow manage to open it up.

harry12 & oldtimer

What you need to understand is that "Microsoft TV Photo Viewer" exports the photo (JPG or what ever else) into a database format that only their software can read it.......It's not matter of file being corrupted, it's matter of having a software that can open the database and read from it.


Cheers

[snowmonkey]

Hi Oldtimer;

Let em answer this line by line:

You said:
But to quote :I think they are PDI files Why is it "I think" Can he read them or not.
Answer: NO, PDI file is like a database file, you need to have the proper application in order to open it.

You said:
You have to know what exactly he's trying to view or convert.
If he could view it, it would mean he has the proper software application so there wouldn't be a need to convert it, would it ?

You said:
Theres not much that can't be converted.
Answer: Yes, there are, pending on quality of the application.....there are lots of application out there which don't allow any other software to open their file....I'm not talking about JPG...I'm talking about industrial applications which are designed for specific use.

You said:
I'm still not sure if this is 1 file for all or 1 for each picture.

Answer: he could have multiple PDI file......usually every PDI file would identify an album or he could have one huge album.


You said:
Is this a typing error of PDF ?

Answer: It's not a typo

You said:
Why is TV part of the software named.?

Answer: you have to asked that from Marketing managers of Microsoft.

? Snowmonkey,After exporting aren't the originals still somewhere.
Some people like to keep the original as backup and some don't so you have to ask the from the originator.