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  • Locked veg file

    Posted by Ron Wildhaber on October 5, 2010 at 10:21 pm

    I recently lost my editing drive. I had everything backed up but the 7 mini dv tapes I just captured. I have a new drive ordered but am trying to piece this project together creating avi files on my C: drive. The problem is I saved the project and when I returned to reopen the project, the files (greyed out) are missing due to the veg files being locked. I never seen this before. Can anyone enlighten me on what happened? The vef file icon (in weindows explorer) has a lock on the lower left side. Sony Vegas 9 Pro Windows 7
    Thanks Ron

    Ron Wildhaber replied 15 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • John Rofrano

    October 5, 2010 at 11:11 pm

    A lock might mean that the file has been marked as “Read Only”. Just go to the file properties in windows explorer and change it.

    ~jr

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
    http://www.vasst.com

  • Ron Wildhaber

    October 5, 2010 at 11:36 pm

    The file is not marked as read only and under the security tab in the explorer, I have full permission to do whatever I want with the file but when I open it in Vegas, all the work that I had done shows up as greyed out sections. Nothing else in my explorer is locked. I thought this might me something in Vegas that is causing this.

    Thanks for the reply,
    Ron

    Ron

  • John Rofrano

    October 6, 2010 at 2:33 am

    I don’t think I follow what’s going on here. You said all your work shows up as grayed out. Can you upload a screenshot? Are you sure this isn’t caused by missing files from the hard drive crash?

    ~jr

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
    http://www.vasst.com

  • Ron Wildhaber

    October 6, 2010 at 3:43 pm

    The veg files I created were on my system “C” drive and not the bad drive. I scoured the web before posting trying to find out how to correct this. Everything I found was in reference to setting up permissions in Windows Explorer. I have everything open so anyone can access and change add to or delete any files on all my drives. It is just my wife and myself using a home office computer. I had no previous problems and everything else in Explorer works fine so I was thinking this is a Sony Vegas specific problem but it is not. This morning I reinstalled the bad drive and to my surprise it was recognized but some of the files and folders were corrupt. The Veg files I had created on this questionable drive were missing as were some other files as well. I copied all the information that I needed to an external drive and am working with the files and saving them as I go. I am able to save the Veg files on this drive and they do not lock as they did when I was saving them on the “C” drive. Must be something to do with it being the system drive. I have no doubt that this drive is going South and what little I am doing on it I am saving often to my external drive. Just wanted to give an update on this.

    Ron

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