omfi problems

[Job Ter burg]

If you look in the OMFI MediaFiles folder, how many items are in there? You should try and keep them under 5000. That said, I have often worked with folders of 15000 items.

A nice way to try to get things to run smoothly is:
– At finder level, hide the OMFI MediaFiles folder
– Create a new OMFI MediaFiles folder
– Move some mediafiles (say 100 files) from the old folder into the new one
– Launch Avid, see if it rebuilds the media database and runs fine
– Quit Avid
– At finder level, move some more files from the old folder into the new one
– Launch Avid, see if it rebuilsds the media database and runs fine
– Quit Avid
– etc. Repeat until you have placed all the old files into the new folder, bunch by bunch.

Quitting the application is rather essential, since rebuilding the media database eats RAM, and you will run out of RAM when rebuilding databases for very large directories. Quitting and relaunching ensures you have fresh RAM available for the process.

HTH.

[Yotam Monk]

hi thanks a lot,working nice
only problem is 2 files that i cant transfer msmmmob,msmfmid
when i move them 2 the new library it crashes like before
i do thank you very much
yot

[Jon Zanone]

I’m not sure what an OMFI directory is – could you explain?

Also, what are your system specs (machine, OS, RAM, video card, QT version…)

Jon

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[Job Ter burg]

Ah, sorry, forgot to mention, those msm files you do NOT want to move, those are the databases you are trying to make the Avid rebuild. If you move those, you are undoing the rebuild. So move all files from the old folder to the new, except for “msmFMID.pmr” and “msmMMOB.mdb” and the subfolder “Creating”.

[Job Ter burg]

The OP was referring to the OMFI MediaFiles directory, in which his mediafiles are stored (when the Avid is set to work in OMF).