So I have a project in house that has been going on for 3-4 months now.  Just yesterday, all the music they imported went offline.  The weird thing is that it is ONLY the music, no other media seems affected.  This music was also imported at the very beginning of the project, so it is not new media.  I have set up all the Avids so that they all see the workspace as the same drive letter, and I have trashed the databases on that workspace twice now, with no results.

Any thoughts on how the media just disappeared?  Also, when I was trashing the databases, I noticed that the head editor's avid, Avid 2, had a folder "Avid 2" and "Avid 2.1"  I have heard other people say that new folders are created after the file limit is reached for the folder, but I just wanted to make sure that this was not of concern.

On Unity  Current Directories - 2542    Current Files - 85495

After the Database rebuild, did you try to "Refresh Media Directories"? 

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briMestone

I refreshed the media directories but still nothing.

The part about the console, I'm not sure what you want me to try doing.

Duck, is this OMF or MXF media.  MXF is the one that will create a x.1 folder.  OMF should not.  I have also seen the OMFI MediaFiles folder become corrupt.  What i would suggest doing, ive done this in the past and it has worked, only for OMF though, ive never done this for MXF. 

Go to the workspace where the music media is located.  Place an X infront f the OMFI MediaFiles folder in the name of the folder. 

Open up a client avid with that workspace mounted.  Try and digitize something to that workspace, scratch VO, video, audio, etc... whatever.  Then, quit out of Avid. 

You will see on the unity workspace that a brandy new OMFI MediaFiles folder has been created. Inside it, you will see the client avid that you created the Faux media with has created a folder, ie Avid2.  

What i would do is drag the media files ONLY from the OLD "X"OMFI MediaFiles folder into the new one you created.  Take everything from the Avid 1, Avid 2, Avid 3, etc.... folders and drag them over.  Make sure you cut and paste, not copy.  You want to move them.  You would drag them into the NEW AVID 2 folder that unity created. They should move.  When they do and all is well, restart media composer, it will get to the media streams manager and it will rebuild its databases. 

Now, if the folders contained in the old "x"OMFI MediaFiles folder combined, is over say, 8,000 files, do not drag them all into one folder.  Split them up between 2 clients.  Meaning, do the same procedure to create a new folder.  Now, you wont have to X anything out, just go into another client, mount the workspace, and digitize something.  It will create a new "avid3" or whatever folder. What i would do then is split the media files up between the two clients and then rebuild the databases between the two of them. Dont worry about placing an X infront of the old OMFI folder, you wont hurt anything.  The media wont disapear, unless you delete it, and remember, you have to tell it to delete.  Just follow the steps above and it should work, it has for me many times.  But, just with OMF, not MXF.

Hope this helps.

Jay

jasonsaro:

MXF is the one that will create a x.1 folder.  OMF should not.

Not on Unity. 

EditA will have a media folder on Unity that is EditA.1, EditA.2 etc.  EditB will have it's own set and so on for however many editor seats you have connected to it.  This holds true for MXF and OMF.

But, the same principles apply with regard to moving/renaming the folders and rebuilding databases.

And here I thought this thread meant the On Hold music at Avid was no more.     curses.

MXF AND OMF will create the "dot" folders when the file counts reach the threshold set for that version of the software.  ALL databases on a workspace must be rebuilt by the system that wrote them in the first place.   If you have 3 systems,  yet had 4 before,  and had pulled all your music in on that now removed 4th system,  when you trash it's database,  you will NEVER get a rebuild.

If push comes to shove,  move ALL the media on the workspace into the folder of a system that does exist, and let that one system sort it out.    The sorting out needs to happen when no editors are attempting to access media,  so an early start for someone.

JDS

HAHAHAHA, No more on hold music!  Nice Jeff!  I think that Avid has an entire Cold Play album playing for their on hold music!  I always hear clocks when i call in!!!  NICE!

Jay