Drive won’t rebuild database.

[Michael Phillips]

What are permissions set to?

Michael

[Dan Crouch]

Hi Michael,
Permissions are set to read and write.

Cheers,
Dan.

[Pat Horridge]

How many files in the folder? More than 5000? Try splitting the contents over more folders.

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[Dan Crouch]

Thanks for the post Pat.
No there is a very small amount of files in folder.

Last night out of frustration I renamed the folder with a few letters after the number to make it invisible to Avid. This has seemed to work and also has not taken anything offline.

This happened when I was trying make an AAF export last night for a sound mix today in town. It looks like during this process, Media Composer made a new folder (the probematic one) and the new MXF’s it created became corrupt in some way.

Can I ask what you make of this as I would like to avoid it in future.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Dan.

[Michael Phillips]

If the folders are named anything but a number, they will no longer be indexed, but will still be read by Avid. So any new material added will not be seen.

So the folders in the Avid MediaFiles/MXF can be named:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or

10, 11, 12, 13, or

10, 20, 30 and they will all be seen.

If you rename one of then to 1A or 10-exterior after they have been indexed the content will be seen, but anything added afterwards will not. If this is the case, then rename the folder to a digit only name.

Michael

[Dan Crouch]

Thanks Michael, that’s very helpful.
Can I ask, if I have 3 drives, can they all have folders 1-20 etc or should they be exclusive across all drives. For ex drive 1 has MXF folders named 1-12 drive 2 has MXF folders named 13-20.

Thanks again,
Dan.

[Pat Horridge]

Numbered folders can be the same across different drives just not in the same MXF folder. However keeping them different makes combining the contents of drives easier.
So you could have all the folders in drive 1 start at 1000 (so 1001, 1002,1003) and use 2001,2002,2003 for drive 2 etc.

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[Michael Phillips]

As long as they are on separate drives, you can have similar named folders. Media Composer will always create a “1” folder if there isn’t one for capture, import, renders, transcodes until it reaches its file limit and will create the next available number. When managing feature length editorial I tend to start with “11” saving the first 10 folder for MC to do its thing and the number scheme is 11 is “1st” day of dailies, 12 is 2’dn day, etc. Depending on number of dailies, separate drives and such, you can do 101, 102, etc.

Michael

[Dan Crouch]

Thank you both for post’s very helpful indeed I will stick to that in future.

Can I ask just 1 more question?

Last night during exporting AAF, Avid was making a new folder, named 1. From what you are saying this is because there wasn’t enough room on any other folder for the new renders.

I thought it was doing so in error because in the new folder were lots of what appeared to be duplicate files…

Avid_Mob.0A02.D541B4C90.1.mxf
Avid_Mob.0A02.D541B4C90.2.mxf

The question is, are these dupe files .1 & .2? if not then Avid was simply making a new file as you say.

Thanks again for any help with this, I had a very late night trying to figure it out.

Dan.

[Glenn Sakatch]

remember, Avid will always output to a “1” folder until it is too full. Then it will switch to “2” unless you have a 2 that is too full, and so on.

The fact that your highest numbered folder might be 564 is not important to Avid. If there is no “1” folder it will make it, and render to it. If there is a “1” folder with room, it will render to it, and so on and so on. It doesn’t know you want to use 564, and you can’t tell it that.

If you were getting duplicated media files, perhaps you were consolidating, without the “skip media already on the drive” checkbox clicked? I believe the MOB files you are pointing to are usually internally created avid files, like renders created in the process.

Glenn