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As an example, select a range of slides with some flagged and some not. If
you choose Toggle Flag on Selected Slides, the slides that have flags will
be toggled to off, the slides that originally did not have flags will now have
flags turned on. If you had selected Flag Selected Slides instead, all of the
slides would be flagged.

How ProShow Uses Files

ProShow has a unique approach to creating shows which helps keep your
show files small and your image collection organized. Let’s talk about what
files are used when you make a show, and how those files work.

The Show File
The core file that makes up your slide show is a PSH file You’ll find that this
file has the name you’ve given to your show with the PSH extension. So,
your show file might be ‘MyShow.PSH’.

The PSH file does not contain the materials you put into the show. What it
does is contain are pointers, like those you would find in a database. These
pointers tell ProShow where the files you’ve added to the show are located
on your system. When you open a show, the PSH file says “This image is in
that folder and this audio file is in this other folder over here”. ProShow is
told where those files are and opens them when you open your show.

Once ProShow is told where to find your content, the next thing the PSH file
does is tell ProShow how to interpret those images, videos or audio clips.
For example, if slide 4 features an image that is cropped, rather than crop
the original image on your computer, the PSH file tells ProShow to display
the crop effect that's been added.

Essentially, the PSH file is your show. If you delete this file, or lose it, you’ve
lost your show.