missing files when importing session data!

[yazoo]

Hi everyone!

I have just finished 4 episodes of dialog editing on a TV show for swedish television .

Now im going to start import session data from my "DX stem sessions" to a "final mix session".

After using import session data, protools stops and tells me that some audio files is missing.

How can this be?

Everything seems fine If I open my original "DX stem session" that I just imported from.

Im working against a deadline and was not prepared for a problem like this, can some give me a tip?

regards
benny

[santacore]

Benny,

Check your file allocation for your original dialog session. You might have some files that got allocated to the internal drive or another external drive.

When you import into your mix session make sure you copy and consolidate files from the dialog session. That way it will pull in all the random files from the other drives if necesarry.

Hope that helps.

[gsilbers]

yes, consolidate or do a "save copy in" this way you can do also a remove unused regions or audio files.

you u just drag the folder to another computer ,fades and files might ended up somewhere else.

PT can redraw fades but audio regions..

[Pedro_vde]

I would not do a consolidate as it nails everything down in the editing stage and as a mixer I know that it happens that some minor tweaks will be done later on. If the problem persists try save session copy indeed.

The trick to prevent protools to random-allocate is to put all your drives on T (Transfer) in the Work Space except your session drive.

Kind regards from Belgium

Pedro

[yazoo]

Thanks for your replies!

I have opened and checked the disc alloctaion for my source session (DX Stem)
, Its all located right!

I also cleared unused files in the session to avoid importing unnecessery files. (dont know if this is necessery?!)

But still I get 9 missing audio files when I import sessiondata to my new "Mix Stem Session".

Its not an option to consolidate files and saving as a new. I must have all files and fades in the mix process.

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Have somebody expirienced similar problems?

[yazoo]

I just found out that the 9 missing files is imported to the session and is in the audio files folder.

But in some way the "Unique ID" doesnt match



this is boring ;)

[santacore]

I hate stuff when stuff like that happens. Glad to hear you sorting things out.

That's the one thing I miss about system 5 in OS9. It used to be so easy to pick a file to relink. Now, it's a lot harder to find and relink files that loose their way. Of course files don't seem to get lost as much anymore so I guess it's a trade off.

Good luck with the rest of the project.

[yazoo]

Originally Posted by santacore

I hate stuff when stuff like that happens. Glad to hear you sorting things out.

That's the one thing I miss about system 5 in OS9. It used to be so easy to pick a file to relink. Now, it's a lot harder to find and relink files that loose their way. Of course files don't seem to get lost as much anymore so I guess it's a trade off.

Good luck with the rest of the project.

I fixed it but the mystery is still out there!

Dont know why some file get lost, The name is right and the folder hieracy also.
But in some way the ID is changing during the export or something.

Thanks for taking interest in this boring topic

[dajaun]

I just had this exact same problem. I finished editing a session did a save copy to a clean drive then did an import session data on to a session on a different computer and it said 54 missing audio files. Took it back to the original system and got the same linking error. Looked into it and all the Unique id's had changed. I had to go back to an older session in order to properly restore the links.

Any ideas on how import session data rewrote unique id's on a session that it was importing from?

[edit machine]

Originally Posted by yazoo

I fixed it but the mystery is still out there!

Dont know why some file get lost, The name is right and the folder hieracy also.
But in some way the ID is changing during the export or something.

Thanks for taking interest in this boring topic

just curious, what version/system did you have the problem with?

i remember having all sorts of problems like that on HD system's running later versions of pro tools 6. file ID's would get corrupt for no reason. at that point it was routine to have to use the link by name only function in the search dialog every time we had to import session data, or even move sessions from room to room.

[ggegan]

Originally Posted by yazoo

I just found out that the 9 missing files is imported to the session and is in the audio files folder.

But in some way the "Unique ID" doesnt match



this is boring ;)

This is pretty common. I often have to search by name only in order to find some files. Not a big deal, but an annoyance.

[Lipflap]

Originally Posted by ggegan

This is pretty common. I often have to search by name only in order to find some files. Not a big deal, but an annoyance.

And, by definition, this occurs when you can least afford the time and when you're down to but few brain cells. I, too, miss the old manual PT linking routine.

[lebouche]

I had this problem a few years ago....

I found out it was because my external drive was the wrong format.