relinking missing footage in cs5

[Todd Kopriva]

It’s working for me.

What version of After Effects? (I.e., have you installed the recent updates?) What operating system?

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[Micajah Smithson]

Having the same re-linking problems. AE Cs5 v 10.0.1.19.
Previously I would find re-link i layer of a photoshop file and then AE would find the rest. Now i have to re-link every file of 185 files.

[Micajah Smithson]

Figured it out – but it wasn’t obvious.

I had a AE comp and files that were working on drive A. I needed to update and revise the project file but didn’t want to loose the previous version. So I collected the file to another folder on Drive B. AE completed the collection. I ejected Drive A, then double-clicked the collected AE project file on drive B and it messaged 168 files missing. So I relinked one of the files that were missing, but none of the other files re-linked. It seems like previous versions before CS5 just did this with no problems.

I re-set prefs and tried again – same problem.

So – I moved all the footage files out of the collected footage folder up one level into where the AE project file was located, re-opened the file, re-linked one missing file and viola – all the files re-linked.
It appears that the footage needs to be in the same folder as the project file, but the default file structure for a collected file is not arranged that way, so has something changed or is this a bug?
Like I said it seems that previous versions of AE were not that picky of where the source files were.

CS5 AE 10.0.1.19 on a 2X2.93 GHz Quad Core Mac running 10.6.6

[Eric Peschel]

yes, it seems the way ae handles folder hierarchy has changed.
at work we have a separate library drive that contains all our media.
it is impossible for us to work the way you have described. there had to be another way to deal with this.

[Micajah Smithson]

Yeah – I know -we have multiple Final Cut/AE systems all connected to an Xraid system via fibre and AE worked flawlessly until CS5. Fortunately we have enough drive space to be able to duplicate files. However It’s going to get messy when it comes to archiving – unless were very careful in renaming and documenting.

[Eric Peschel]

Todd,
i’m in CS5 AE v10.0.1.19

We are having problems when switching between platforms. that’s when the unlinking occurs.

I just tried putting one of the missing files loose in our library and relinking that.
I thought that if a relinked file was at the top of the folder hierarchy all other files would be found.
not the case.

I can’t believe we are the only ones coming across this problem.
any ideas for a fix? besides collecting all files as Micajah Smithson suggested.

thanks