PowerPoint Mac 2016: The image part with relationship ID rId2 was not found in the file.

Anonymous
2015-09-21T02:14:12+00:00

AAHHH! I just upgraded to PowerPoint for Mac, Office 2016, and I'm getting this same error. I spent a whole week on a presentation that I'm doing to tomorrow and almost all of my images have disappeared. THIS IS TERRIBLE! I'm not sure what I'm going to do. 

'The image part with relationship ID rId2 was not found in the file'

Is there a fix for this?? Preferably before tomorrow morning? These are all images that I either created or pulled as screen shots. (All jpegs.) 

PLEASE HELP!

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  1. Jim G 134.1K Reputation points MVP
    2017-08-08T15:57:00+00:00

    As has already been stated over and over: Install updates, then fix your presentation.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-08-07T22:37:12+00:00

    Same problem, first day of School and my presentation without images !

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  3. Steve Rindsberg 99,176 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-07-27T15:35:20+00:00

    >> The new presentations are exhibiting the error, when using 'old' slides. 

    Unfortunately, yes, if the old slides are already exhibiting the same error.  Once the presentation encounters this error, it's broken and cannot be fixed other than by manually deleting what's left of the original pictures and re-inserting them.  Inserting a broken slide into a new, unbroken presentation won't help.  The slide is still broken.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-07-27T14:07:59+00:00

    "As has already been stated, presentations that were affected by this bug must be re-created.

    Any new presentation you make will not be affected by this problem if your software is up to date...Your version should be 15.33 or newer."

    I have version 15.36, and numerous long presentations, from which I need to use various parts in new presentations.  The new presentations are exhibiting the error, when using 'old' slides.  

    This has happened for 'old' slides existing in presentations on my hard drive. 

    Recreating long presentations from scratch is not a tenable solution...

    If I weren't forced to use PowerPoint, I wouldn't...

    ...am considering switching to LaTeX (beamer), even though it means I'd have to re-create 100's of slides---but this is preferable to the absurd Office365 garbage... OpenSource ftw!

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