Avid file transfer probelm

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ben.vanderput

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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
 
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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