Avid Unity Orphaned Media

[Dan O’brien]

Are you bringing bins from other projects that aren’t running on the unity? If so, those clips from outside projects (even when batch digitized) will be associated in the media tool with the original project.

In media tool, try ‘all projects’, then sort by that column to see if there are old/outside projects with leftover media. And try getting rid of your render files if you haven’t already tried that – but beware that deleting render files associated with imported targas/etc will make that clip offline…

Good luck…

Dan

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[Craigerson]

Thanks for your response. I’m sorry, I should have been clearer. When we upgraded to a new Unity a couple years ago we transcoded old media from our old Unity and some of it got damaged in the move and the system saw those pieces of media as offline. So fast forwarding a few years, I’m now in charge of media deletion and I’m wondering if there’s a way to find out if there is media that was damaged, aren’t linked to a project anymore, possibly cluttering up our bigger partitions. Some of our smaller partitions when you bring those up in the Media tool with “All Projects” don’t show any media, but when you physically bring the drive up through Windows explorer, there are files there. Would I be safe in cutting those files?

But my real question is obviously its a bit harder with the 3 100+GB Drive partitons to do that because there is so much media on those drive partitions still being used. Is there a way to see what media on those drives might be the damaged media that Media Tool no longer sees?

Thanks!