Editing .dck files

[Rosebud&Grumpers]

Hi,

I have been using my XP Pro laptop with Resolume 2.41, and eventually filled up the harddrive with clips. I decided to buy an external hard drive - something I should have done in the beginning.

Now, there is no built-in way to transfer decks, is there? I mean, if I copy everything from C:\clips to G:\clips, the decks cant be automatically updated to see the new location. I do not want to lose the decks I have made.

So, I decided to try to edit the .dck files in Notepad. While it is possible to open the .dck file, when saved, Resolume will not open it.

I saved in a variety of formats - ANSI, Unicode, Unicode-big endian, UTF8, and from Wordpad, "text document - MSDOS format"

In each case, Resolume will not open the deck (even if I have changed nothing, simply opened, saved and closed the file)

I tried Reshacker, which is a tool for editing .dlls and .exes, but it does not open .dck files.

What should I do? Is there anyway to move the clip location and update the decks?

[vjaca]

i got python script to change e: to c: in .dck files, but it wont help you case...... if u got mac u can open .dck files mac text editor(don´t remember name correcly) and force changes it.... i do this once and .dck files worked, but some decks clip prewiev gone gray, but it still works... hope this helps u somehow

[Rosebud&Grumpers]

Hi,

Thanks - I have access to a Mac, and I use Ubuntu Linux on another machine so I will try that.

I would guess that the reason the thumbnails turned grey, is because the thumbnails are encoded in the dck file, and a find/replace for c: might break the encoded image.

[Rosebud&Grumpers]

Ubuntu does not want to open the file, unless I use a Hex editor. But I have no idea what to change with the Hex!

Will try a Mac next, if all else fails, I'll just copy the clips back onto the laptop for performance, then remove them when I need the machine for other purposes.

Out of interest, would you be willing to post the Python script you used?

[vjaca]

You got mail

[Rosebud&Grumpers]

Hi-

Thanks, that script works well, with slight modification to suit my set-up - especially as I have .mov, .avi and .mpg files all in various decks.

I've never used python before, but I am pretty impressed with it. I must learn more! But I can also see the dangerous power it has, so, you are probably right to mail it rather than post it for anyone to use and destroy their decks by mistake.

[melemel]

I'm bumping this thread as I have the same problem - does anyone have any fresh ideas? I have loads of decks that I'm very happy with, and to re-do them all would take many hours.

I too have tried opening them in notepad or wordpad, editing the filepaths (there are about 15 to change) and then saving with a .dck extension but no luck. Surely there must be a way around this?

[edwin]

I suddenly remembered i once made an application called the Deck Fixer, i attached it to this post.
You can change location of the fies in the deck with this tool.
I hope it still works, if not i can't really do anything about it anymore. Anyway give it a go i would say.

Cheers
Edwin

[melemel]

Thanks Edwin.
I had such high hopes for that fixer, it would have been a lifesaver- but unfortunately it doesn't work for me. I would be interested if someone else could also test it out and let us know if they managed to get it working.
I have so many decks to re-do I would have glady paid if that fixer had worked!