i am editing with an XW8200 HP workstation V2.5 and looking to move all projects that are still good to a new folder I created (inside Avid Project folder in Administrator folders in the HP) I called Good projects and later deleted the others ...when I when back to Avid ...none where available or visible in local or anywhere in the project window.I  looked for a few people in this subject matter but none was as dumm as I was with this so there is nothing telling me how to resolve this simple problem....I only tried going to the Attic , and adding .avb extentions...but no, nothing visible when I open Avid again.

Any advice?

 Have you navigated to the root level of where you stored these new folders that you created?

Yes.  That's where I screwed up. Avid was closed.

Here is where the mess happened C:/docucmentsandsettings/administrator/mydocuments/AvidProjects/Goodprojects

Is this what you are asking me? thanks Kenton.

Peter

I forgot to say that inside GoodProjects is where I moved all of theprojects I decided not to delete and now I  can't bing them back so they are directly connected with Avid Projects and not with Good Projects....the error says they are locked...

...no help...?

 Edit2007:

In the select project window, there is a field that displays the current path. Verify that the path is indeed: C:/docucmentsandsettings/administrator/mydocuments/AvidProjects/Goodprojects

If it is and you still don't see your projects listed, cycle through the options "private" "shared" and "external". If you still don't see them, click on the browser button in the select project window and re-navigate the path and when you get to "Good Projects", double click to lock the selection in.

did all that before, and nothing. ....I don't understand why is not possible to simply bring all the project folders back inside the Avid Project folder (now they are inside this new stupid folder I created in order to make it easier to delete the others). Browsing and double clicks are not working...

Should I delete the Avid Project folders completly and use the Attic folder to create a new one later adding the .avb extention at the end of each projecct folder?

whenever you can help, thanks again.

 Yes, you certainly should be able to simply move the individual project folders into the "Avid Projects" folder on your :c drive - I can't for the life of me understand why you can't do that. You should be able to do this at the desktop level. But if that's the case, have you tried deleting the current "Avid Projects" folder and creating a new one?

 One additional thought - this could be a permissions issue. Do you have a full permissions (Administrator) profile at the Windows OS level?

Larry, thank you for your help. I did try all of that and nothing, it is always telling me ...access denied.

And yes I am the only person as administrator, the only folder you will see next to administrator is Share folder and I even tried using the Mover feature, but I get the deniel error sign.

To make things worse I now see the folders are 0KB, empty...when I bring some of the folders from the garbage (the reason of this mess) that  are not empty, still can 't open them with Avid.

Question: do you a link in how to work with the Attic folders in cases like this? it may be faster to open all this project from the attic , from zero?

 Here's what I would do. For each existing project, create a new "(project name) 2" project and launch it. WITHOUT creating any new bins at this point, use the "open bins" command to navigate to the appropriate attic bins and open them. One at a time, create a new bin named "(original bin name) 2" and drag the contents of the attic bin to that bin. Close out the attic bins. You should be good to go. If your associated media files are intact, linkage should be automatic and everything should come up online. If not, a media database rebuild may be necessary.

{EDIT} I'm still concerned about this "access denied" situation - there has got to be some permissions out of whack somewhere, perhaps at the drive level itself.

Larry, thank you a lot , the project (one for now) is back and good! I will call HP and see why I get this error with denied access.....

thanks a lot

P

 You're quite welcome. I'm glad that worked out for you.