Today, we were having trouble saving a PowerPoint slide deck as a set of PNG files.
The error message said:
Sorry we couldn't find slide1.PNG. Is it possible that it was moved, renamed, or deleted?
After trying to copy the slides into another deck to replace the original deck, the same problem existed. Saving in PPTX format was fine. Curiously, saving individual slides was also fine.
I found a few blog posts online that said it might be to do with an embedded period in the filename. That wasn't the case but it gave me the clue that I needed.
The filename had a space before the .PPTX. This caused the error above. Removing the space fixed the issue. So if you see this issue, check if there is any nonstandard issue with your filename.
Hope that helps someone (including me the next time I run into the issue and can't remember what the problem was).
Hi Greg
Thank you a million times. Your astute observation saved me a lot of work.
Cheers
Bill
You are most welcome
Greg,
Thank you!!!
Had the exact same issue. Once I renamed the file like an old dos file – underscores and no spaces – it worked great.
Andrew
Glad to hear it helped.
Yes! That space was it exactly. Thanks a ton, Greg.
You are most welcome
Still helpful!
You are most welcome!
I had the same problem but in JPEG, thank you very much!
You are most welcome !
Thank you! Was having a hard time trying to figure out what was going wrong. Just wanted to let you know that this post is still helping a person in need 🙂
Thanks. Glad to hear it. You are most welcome !
Very nice one . I am totally confused now this miracle rule had lot of time loss
anyway thanks
You are most welcome. Yes, I lost a lot of time working out what was going on. Figured it would help someone else. I'm glad if it has.
What a solution! Thank you.
Glad to hear it helped. You are most welcome !