When I try to open a project in Windows Movie Maker...

.. .with an ID file of .mswmm in my Movie Maker 2.1 version, all I get in the panel mounting is a big red X and a black screen in the video preview window.

The Movie Maker-.mswmm project file does not include the source
files... (Picture files, video Clips, music)... it saves only the location
they are saved in your hard drive.

If the source files have been moved, renamed, deleted or other-
wise, inaccessible, you will see the red Xs.

If the source files are still available... try right click the red Xs and
see if you can access the current location and restore the path...
otherwise, you will have to start with different source files.

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