OMFI MediaFiles problem -- AVID won't recognize files

[Owen]

I recently upgraded to a larger hard drive for my media files, so I just copied them over from the old drive to the new one. Now when I start Avid I get the following message, and none of the OMF or AIF files in the OMFI MediaFiles folder on that drive will not import. They are all listed as OFFLINE in Avid, and when I start Avid I get the following error for every file in the OMFI MediaFiles folder:

Unable to scan the fild "I:\OMFI MediaFiles\file.omf".
The file does not appear to be an OMF File.

I've tried re-linking offline media in Avid, but it doesn't seem to like any of the files. If I manually open the AIF files I can hear them just fine.

Any thoughts?

 

[MichaelP]

How were they copied over? Mac to PC, PC to Mac? Try deleting the PMS files. Can you see them in the MediaTool?

 

[Owen]

I did a reinstall of XP on the Editor, and the media drive suddenly showed up as an unreadable dynamic drive. I couldn't even import it as a foreign disk, so there was no access to the OMFI MediaFiles folder.

I pulled the drive and put it in a second XP system that was able to import the drive. With access to the drive I copied everything over onto a larger disk. When I installed the disk into the Editor this problem began.

I tried having Avid create an all new OMFI folder and then brought the files in. Avid Quarantined most of them. I was then able to transfer files across the network from the original copy, but only about half of them successfully inported. I've deleted the PMS files on every attempt.

Current status is that I have 629 files (70 gigs) in quarantine. I started with 250 gigs, so that's progress. Still hoping I can somehow get Avid to recognize the rest of these.

The Media Tool shows me nothing at all... which is odd, because at least half of this movie is online -- the footage it's sitting right there on the timeline.

 

[CLD]

sounds like a security problem.. goto that actual omfimediafile folder, right click and goto properties. Click on the securities folder..

do that and snapshot a pic for me.. lets see what you got..

CLD.JT

 

[Owen]

I just wanted to update this thread for some closure in case other people search with similar issues.

CLD was correct, this ended up being a securities problem to some extent, and I had to manually set file permissions in XP to allow access to all of the folders.

Case closed -- for now!