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  • FYI: Don’t mess with the OMFI Files Folder!!!!!!

    Posted by Roman Mykytyn on June 3, 2005 at 3:11 am

    Hi,

    This is just an FYI that some (or many) of you might already know, but for those who don’t (like me!) here’s a big heads up…

    I just had a major issue with my XpressDV 3.5.4 running on a Dual 1.25 G4, OS 10.2.6. After working just fine for a long time, I tried starting up and the machine froze, while still on the splash screen, because it began to scan my media drive. It went into an infinite loop of some kind and wouldn’t come out!

    Here’s what I found: I had just tried to convert a file from my Media 100 to the Avid. I saved the exported video file in the OMFI Files folder, thinking that I’d like to keep everything together. When I pulled that file out of the OMFI folder, it scanned the drive in two seconds and continued to startup. It ran as usual thereafter. So,…

    DO NOT PUT ANYTHING INTO THE OMFI FILES FOLDER!!!!!! LET AVID PUT STUFF IN THERE BY ITSELF!!!!

    I apologize now if this is all old news, but after doing a search of posts, no one seemed to know anything about this, so I figured…

    Roman Mykytyn replied 20 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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