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  Moving MXF files and media onto different drive

  Posted by Allan Liang on June 21, 2009 at 6:11 am

  Here’s the situation. I’m helping out a friend sort out his editing woes, and he has a pretty convoluted setup so I’ll try to provide as many details as I possibly can.

  Let’s call his project “JAZZ PROJECT”. He was originally editing off a 1TB 4-bay eSATA raid system (let’s call this drive “RAIDset”) which quickly filled up, so he bought a 1TB single disk external eSATA drive (let’s call this drive “JAZZ PROJECT”) to share the load. However, JAZZ PROJECT started to die on him and Avid stopped reading it, although it was still mounting on his OS and his data was still accessible. That was when he decided to buy a 4TB 4-bay eSATA raid system (let’s call this drive “MEDIA”) and decided to compile all of his media onto one disk.

  What’s the best way to do this? The Avid file system still baffles me a little bit, so any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I think he’s moved the MXF files from RAIDset onto MEDIA, but I am unsure of how to handle the MXF files from JAZZ PROJECT because both drives have identical folder names containing different MXF files, so do I just drag the MXF files over and don’t worry about the folders? It’s all very confusing, maybe we were doing it wrong from the start, so if anyone knows the ‘correct’ way to go about this, please let me know.

  Scott Cumbo replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Scott Cumbo

  June 21, 2009 at 10:16 pm

  This is the way I always move media….

  1 – with your new “media” drive conected if their is any “avid mediafiles” floders on that drive just rename them with an “x” in front. (that way avid will not read those folders)
  2 – go into your avid project and just create a title and save it to the “media” drive” this will have avid create a new “Avid mediafiles” folder.
  3- now move all your exsisting media files into this new folder.
  you may have to go down a level or two until you hit the inner most folder most likely named “1” example:
  media drive letter:Avid MediaFilesMXF1
  4 – after all your media files are moved in, you then must delete these two database files:
  “msmFMID.pmr” and “msmMMOB.mdb”
  5 – after deleting those 2 files go back into your avid project. Avid should automaticly rebuild the database files and your media should all be back online.

  good luck

  Scott Cumbo
  Editor
  Broadway Video, NYC

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