As I was editing with the Avid open, a producer came and asked if I can type Arabic characters to open caption a program.  I changed some language settings in Control Panel and downloaded and installed an Arabic font.  Probably has nothing to do with what happened, but this is what I was doing at the time of the problem.

To install the font, I was prompted to reboot.  I did so, but forgot to close Media Composer Adrenaline.

When I rebooted and reopened Media Composer, a strange thing happened.  As the Avid MC splash screen displayed (Avid Media Composer software version 2.2.7), it said the software was unregistered.  It asked me for a location of the Avid folders for users and projects, and I mistakenly pointed to C:\Program Files\Avid\.  At this point, it booted to a "clean" version of the software and built new folders for Users, Projects and others.

My Avid files for Users, Projects and others are actually on C:\Program Files\Avid\Media Composer Adrenaline.

Now when I try to boot, it keeps booting to C:\Program Files\Avid\ and created new Projects, Users other folders normally in the C:\Program Files\Avid\Media Composer Adrenaline folder.

It looks as though the files in C:\Program Files\Avid\Media Composer Adrenaline are all there; the Avid doesn't want to look for them there anymore.

How do I restore the system so that when the Avid boots, it looks for the corrrect files in C:\Program Files\Avid\Media Composer Adrenaline ?

OS:  Windows XP SP3

Software:  Avid Media Composer Adrenaline 2.2.7.

Ouicktime Pro version 7.0.4

Have you tried pointing to that folder and selecting a project?

I am not 100% sure, but AFAIK, the software will startup looking in the same place that the last project was opened.  if not available, it will default to something else.  But if you have a successful quit from MC, it should remember where you were.

Aha!  So, on the initial screen to select my project, I used the User pulldown menu and navigated to the correct User folder and imported all the users (one at a time) and then pointed to the correct Projects folder and opened a project. 

Upon closing the Avid and reopening, it did stick to the last project area.  Thanks!

I also took the opportunity to re-enter the company name in the registration screen.

Still don't know why Avid wants to keep creating new User and Project folders in the Avid root, but that's a minor bug-a-boo we can live with until we someday upgrade out of 2.2.7.