I did download older versions fine from this site but strangely this site is blocked from this part of the world can someome be kind enough to send it to me as an email attached, thanks in advance.

md_jamil@yahoo.com or md_jamil61@hotmail.com

You've got e-mail !

http://forum.videoediting.ru/lofiversion/index.php/t20301.html

has a thread with a tip that's preventive care so that MDV is not AS necessary - e.g. to use subst command to create virtual drives. i've done this for the last 2 years exclusively - figured it out before i saw the russians doing it.

and now if you create all avid projects as "external" into the same directory (now a virtual drive with its own drive letter) this enables you to keep your entire project under one subdirectory. it's quite sweet when juggling multiple projects and needing to free up space on media drives as new projects come along - something that we all deal with.

but of course MDV is still sweet in finding unreferenced media that for whatever reason has gotten buried somewhere deep inside your system. besides with the MXF\1...2...etc directory structure you can first move things to a purgatory down the numeric food chain - and then kill it only when you're absolutely sure it's of no use.

The method you describe has been discussed several times here as well as on other forums. Yes it's a good workaround for people who wanna manage the media files in this way. I do NOT, and use MDV.

this is what i was searching for,

very nice tool...

 

cheers,

issam

 

Updated to v 0.4 unicode

now it looks like very-very fast kind of media tool

Many functions are not implemented at this moment, but basic file management functions

(copy, move,delete) are on their places

[quote user="DJFio[DB]"]Updated to v 0.4 unicode[/quote]Thanks

I've been reading about this program and it seems like it works well. We've got a problem here that I think it may help us with but I'd like another opinion:

We have tons of files in our OMFI MediaFiles folders that are from Projects we have deleted from our system. We've confirmed this by file names. In the Media Tool, these Project names still come up, but when we try to show all of the media from them, no results are shown. Would this program help us to get rid of all of that media from old projects that lingers on our system, and we are unable to delete with the Media Tool?

Yes, it'll help.  We use both Media Tool and MDV to manage media.

So bascially I can use this to display Media and I can select the project from the left (the ones that were deleted but show up in Media Tool) and it will list on the right the files associated with that project? Once I delete (or move, at first) them and open Avid, the databases will mount and we'll have all the orphan files gone?

Orphan files will appear associated with "Null", as a project.  But, yes, the process you describe is correct.  When Avid is launched the next time, the media will be scanned & indexed, and new Media Databases built.

Thanks for replying. Just one more question...Getting rid of all "Null" files will not harm the system, as they are not associated with a project, correct?

That's my undertsanding.  Of course, you could "move" them to a holding folder instead.  Then,  check to see if any were actually in use (Media Offline).  Once you're confident that they are not necessary, you can delete the whole holding folder.