Avid file transfer probelm

[ben.vanderput]

Hey all,
I'm a student and we run server based work flow. At the end of the semester the sever is cleared. I have always transferred all the content of the server partitions containing my projects to an external HD. Just simply dragged and dropped.
I am now trying to work on a demo reel and when I open the projects everything is offline. I have looked into consolidate/transcode but those don't seem to help.
My friend says the databases should just rebuild themselves and relink the files on MC startup but it's not.

Am I missing something? Am I screwed?
Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks

[MikeyP]

I would agree with your friend. Throw away the database files from the drive where all of your media is stored. DRIVE/Avid Mediafiles/mxf/1 Navigate to that folder then delete the msmMMOB & msmFMID files. It is possible you may have more than folder "1", I have 5 folders numbered sequentially on my Avid because I have so much footage- you will need to do that for all of them. Then restart the avid, it should remap the drive and find all of your clips.

[ben.vanderput]

Yea, after looking around a bit more I did that. Still no good. Avid just refuses to rebuild the databases on my external drive. I searched for all the msm files on the drive and the Mac but it did nothing.

Thanks for the reply, any other ideas?

[MikeyP]

And your sure your file structure is as listed? If you just grabbed & dragged and didnt get them in the 'right' folders it wouldnt see it. Hmmmm.

[ben.vanderput]

I don't see how I didn't get the right folders since everything was on server partitions and I would copy the entire partition onto the external.

[tfg]

If the files are offline, avid should still show the last location under the 'drive' tab. Does Avid actually see the drive itself? Can it render/capture to it?

[ben.vanderput]

I shows the last location as the server partition. I have successfully captured to my external so I know Avid can see it.
I did just discover that some projects are missing their OMFI MediaFiles folders but recreating those folders didn't seem to do anything.

I'm really stumped.

[ben.vanderput]

Ok,
I imported a video, it recognized the external, but went off-line at reboot. I created a 0dB tone that stays online after reboot.
I realized I never reported that when I open the project that Avid Adrenaline is disabled.
I am running MC 5.5 and to my knowledge the project was never taken into 6.

[ben.vanderput]

Very oddly another one of my projects (SD, I don't get Adrenaline disabled prompt) has partially come back online. The mixdown is online but not the clips or anything else.
I have no idea.