Moved Project From Attic Folder To Projects Folder

[Kenton Vannatten]

To get an Attic bin to open you have to add the .avb extension.

To get it back into the Attic just copy it back there.

Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)

[Michael Mills]

The whole folder was moved over, not a bin. As I stated before, the folder will not open and not be moved back to the Attic folder. Any work arounds?

[Dave Schweitzer]

I believe the attic is a repository for copies of bins, not the whole project. Try creating a new project, then open the bins (adding the .avb if necessary) and if you need to, create new bins in your project then copy the attic bin contents to your new bins before trashing the attic bins.

[Kenton Vannatten]

[Dave Schweitzer] “believe the attic is a repository for copies of bins, not the whole project”

That is correct, Sorry I misunderstood the problem,

The short answer is The Attic Folder is just that a Folder that hold “attic copies” of your bins. The Project Folder is seperate and can only be backed up manually.

You can’t open the Attic Folder inside Avid, follow Dave’s suggestion of adding the .avb extension to the attic files, then using Open Bin in Avid open them up. Create New Bins and ALT+drag the contents of the “Old” bin to the New one.

personal note: Whenever I’m dealing with Attic Bins, I like to keep the revision# as part of the new bin name. For example, “BinName.15” becomes “BinName_15.avb” This helps keep the bin names unique as well as provides a visual cue as to which newly named bins were the most recent from the Attic.

Kenton VanNatten
Avid Editor (for hire)

[Geraint Pari huws]

As a by the way, you don’t have to change the extension, just copy the bin to anywhere outside the attic folder, and at the open bin dialogue select all files and then just select the appropraite bin(even though it may not look like one) and it will open.