Check the Managing > Collections page of my website.

The mediatab.dat file has a numeric suffix that has to align..... and the
COL file is the collection database for Movie Maker 1... if you didn't use
MM1 on the computer, there wouldn't be any.
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PapaJohn

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"Mother Goose" <MotherGoose@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2839D575-0004-404F-ABE7-9BB23B412A86@microsoft.com...
>I bought a new Media Center M7100Y and I had copied the mediatab.dat file
> from my old computer to the new one and it worked fine. But when I copied
> the mediatab.dat file from my M7100Y and copied it back to my M1180n
> computer
> it would not work. Also the help talks about a Windows Movie Maker.col
> file
> and I have searched and cannot find it anywhere. Anybody know about my
> problem?
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> Mother Goose