I used the link, downloaded it again, and placed it in the folder with all the other animations I have. It still doesn't show up in Deskscapes as an available animation.

I have done a restart. Right now aquarium overstock fish, which I downloaded, is running on this laptop very nicely. I am using Deskscapes 10.3. The Red Disaster v2,2 smooth transition was usable and ran before my Win10 20H2 clean install. All my other downloaded Dreams are fine on this laptop. I have Deskscapes 10.3 on another laptop, also running Win10 20H2 installed through an in-place upgrade rather than a clean install, and Red Disaster shows up just fine in that one (it is located in the same directory on both laptops), and runs just fine on that one.

The problem is not in playing the Dream- it doesn't show up at all as an available for use installed Dream, so there's no way to try it with a different setting. On this computer, it is as if the Dream just doesn't exist, whereas on the other one it shows up just fine.

The files for this Dream are indeed located in this folder. I see a cache.ini file and the avi file just as I do for my other downloaded Dreams. I also have the .Dream file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Deskscapes 10, and both Red Disaster v2. Dream and Red Disaster v2.2 Smooth Transition.Dream in Documents\Stardock\Dreams. My other downloaded Dreams, such as Aquarium Overstock Fish, are also similarly placed on both the functioning and the non-functioning computers. Aquarium Overstock Fish is running quite nicely right now on the Red Disaster non-functioning laptop. Red Disaster (neither version) just won't show up in Deskscapes when I open it on the non-functioning computer.

I'll give it a try and let you know how it turns out, probably later tonight.

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