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  • Wed, Apr 23 2008 9:19 PM

    • DVWatts
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    Media Management

     In our older Symphony (v3.5) we have a film that will continue to live there for future modifications or until we upgrade. 

    After backing up all media and project files on 2 separate 1TB drives, I then locked all the related media to this project and went through and deleted many thousands of other unlocked files in the system with the idea that this particular project will be all that lives in it.  Overall it was pretty successful.  However, there were about 75 mostly small audio files that disappeared in the process.  So my question is, what's the fastest way to retrieve these files from the backup drives and replace and relink them?  Of course I can do it one at a time, but would rather not.

    Any ideas, theories, consipiracies or white papers on the best way to handle this.

     

    Thanks,

    John Watts

    Mars-Hill Productions

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    John W. Watts
  • Thu, Apr 24 2008 12:56 AM In reply to

    • Larry Rubin
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    Re: Media Management

     Here's what I would do:

    1. copy the audio media files from the back up media drive into the Media files folder on Symphony .

    2. Delete the two Media Database files, forcing a rebuild on re-launch.

    At this point, your missing files should be restored, but if for some reason they're still offline, try the relink function, targeting the specific Symphony media drive you moved them to.

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