Hello, my computer was having several bugs and was returned to the manufacturer who did a bunch of things to it. It looks like they have uninstalled and re-installed a lot of my programs including media composer. When I went to open it today I found that none of my projects were listed and it looks like it's completely empty.

I need to know how to re-link all of my projects so they are how they were before. The Avid files are on the computer (a million MXF files) but I don't know how to get Media Composer to recognise my projects like they were before.

If you can help I would appreciate it.

Strider

Have you tried navigating to the folder containing the projects from the select project window?

Yes I did try that. It just prompted me to open a new project and said I didn't have one selected so I made one and then it just opened the new project that was empty but didn't re link any of my old stuff.

it's a bit stressful and I'm worried I have lost all of my projects. The MXF files are still there in the folder though, I just don't know how to get them back into Avid.

Strider

Hi, i'm sorry but I'm still trying to answer this question as I can't work out how to get all of my projects back. Has anyone elese ever had to deal with this problem or is this unusual. Any suggestions welcome - i'll give anything a shot as I'm pretty stumped right now. Thanks.

Strider

I believe the whole computer was re-set as most of my programs have lost their presets. There has got to be a way of getting my projects back though right?

hi

do you have a back up of the avids projects folder prior to sending the computer back to the manufacture? if not then there is not a way to rebuild projects just from the raw mxf files...

you could try doing a search of your whole computer for *.avb files (avid bin files - the most important bits to your recovery/projects) and *,avp files (the master project file - these do not directly edit date but might be where all your projects/bins are....)

everybody and anybody who reads this,,,,,,,PLEASE run regular project backups, especially if your machine is being sent ANYWHERE....

in some crazy way this might be permissions of some discription but you need to do the above searches first to see if there is ANY edit data left on your machine...

here's hoping for you.

mike

Thanks a lot Mike, Ok so I did both searched of the entire system. when I searched for *.avb files almost nothing came up (5 files that looked irrelevent) but when I did the search for the *,avp files I found a million Avid OMFI Media Files. Can I do it with these? Does this help?

Otherwise I didn't totally get what you mean by "permissions of some description" can you tell me what you mean by that or anything else I should try?

Strider

Search for Avid Attic. If the attic is gone, and all of the avb files are gone, then your bins and sequences are gone. Running a file recovery program might get them back.

The Avid Media can be restored by opening a new project and using the media tool to look at all of the material on your hard drive and dragging the icons into a new bin, but this doe not recover sequences, only media.