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Deeply Discouraging, Media, Voiceover .IAF’s Deleted or Gone from “Original Media” FCPx Folder
I have had a disaster with Final Cut Pro X and an external data drive backing things up.
Somehow, I lost all the voiceover files that I recorded since the first of the year. I need to figure out how to ensure this doesn’t happen again. It feels devastating. I don’t have said files anywhere on any drives. It seems they were deleted and only aliases left in the “Original Media” folder that FCP has.
Here is a thread I found that must be similar to what happened to me:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/4778
I need to make sure Data Backup isn’t deleting newly recorded content on my source drive. All those voiceover files are now missing, from both the source and destination drives, and I can’t figure out why, but find it a devastating loss of time and money, as all of those will need to have my client come in and re-record the audio which is lost.
A few days ago I started backing up Hard Drives with Prosoft Engineering’s “Data Backup” program. I just sent them an email asking what might have been the issue.
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Have you considered a cloud backup for really critical files?
Noah
FCPWORKS – FCPX Workflow
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I haven’t.
This is totally baffling though. How and what would have deleted all of these files, and just left aliases in their place?
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Take a look at this lunatic file structure or location from the “relink media” dialogue box. This is insane.
To have all of these voiceovers just gone, is so disturbing. I’m still exploring to see if by some strange way, they are to be had somewhere, because I for sure didn’t delete them, but they aren’t in the “Original Media” folder on my hard drive nor the backup hard drive.
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Just before making this post, after reading other posts, I recorded audio within FCP X, just to see where that file would go. As you can see, it is in the “T” folder deep into /var/folders/_______giberish______/T/
But it also went into the FCP “Original Media” folder as well, but all the other voiceovers recorded this year on this mammoth project are there, they are all missing.
Yeah, perplexing.
Are those files hiding somewhere on one of my drives? I loath having to have the voiceovers recordings done anew. Oh man, what a pain, time I don’t have, nor my client.
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my voiceover files “aren’t there” is what I’m sure I typed above, or intended to type, rather than “are” there.
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Still don’t quite understand what you’re asking about here. Files don’t delete themselves.
Sounds more like you assumed that because aliases existed in one folder they represented actual files rather than pointers. So you or someone else or another app(?) deleted the originals by mistake and the pointers remain but now point to non-existing files. But how is this FCPX’s fault?
Some 3rd party backup apps perform an archiving (ie compress/delete originals after backup) which can conflict with aliases. So this is a case of carefully reading the manual and disabling or exclusion rules so the backup app doesn’t burn you. Like this one has it sounds like unfortunately.
Noah
FCPWORKS – FCPX Workflow
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What version of FCPx are you using?
You referenced the events folder which sounds like a very old version. VO’s normally record to the original media folder.Dajen Productions, Santa Barbara, CA
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Not sure and just guessing from you file link structure, but you might try FINDER>GO>GO TO FOLDER>/VAR/FOLDERS/JS. See if files reside here.
It might be that your files were saved into a “private” folder that is reserved for the system and the finder “can’t see.”
Just a guess, but if you search for the file names at the finder level or with FCPX, they will not be found if “hidden” in this manner.
Good luck!
Mike
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Sorry, just saw below you might have done this already…
Mike
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I am using an old version. I need to update. Admittedly, that seems ridiculous that I’ve not done so. I had a few years of doing little with the program before starting this big project, and decided to not “break” what isn’t broken, and kept working in this version. Heck, updates on so many things bring along their own headaches, certainly with iOS devices. I could rant on that subject for a while. Unless Im forced to upgrade, I don’t like to do so usually. Looks like I should do so now, and I’m prepping for it, which also means moving from OSX 10.8 to the needed 10.11 for the latest FCPx install.
Any tips on that upgrade?
Oh, the FCPx I’m currently using is: 10.0.7
And on another note, what is pushing me to upgrade is my output or finished render files have flickering, which I found concern with in this forum with a quick google search:
https://www.avforums.com/threads/final-cut-pro-x-export-problem-pulling-my-hair-out-here.1512661/
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