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rror message: “File does not contain a valid Avid domain header”
Hello everyone,
I am hoping that someone out there can help me with an issue I have been having with Avid Xpress Pro on the Mac.
My co-workers and I had decided that instead of having two separate partitions on our Powermac G5 editing system – one devoted strictly to Avid and the other to Final Cut Pro – we would remove the Final Cut Pro partition to give Avid 10 extra hours of capture space on our internal 150 GB hard drive. No one really used Final Cut Pro on those system as we deal primarily with Avid anyway – over the summer I had partitioned the drive thinking that perhaps people would use FCP but no the case.
With that said, yesterday I began the process using the Mac OS X Leopard Boot disc and the Disk Utility to delete the Final Cut Pro partition and resize the Avid one to fill up the whole drive. UNFORTUNATELY, in the process, I accidentally deleted the Avid partition in Disk Utility – oops, big mistake. Now, we DID have a backup of the disk image, albeit a month old, that I promptly restored to the hard drive. So it boots up now fine, Avid is installed fine, etc.
HOWEVER, I did try to recover the latest versions of the project files by using Data Rescue II to see if I could get back the project files, as our image was a month old and didn’t contain the project files themselves. As the hard drive was not written too excessively, it found 100% of the project files located under /Users/Shared/Shared AvidProjects/ etc. I restored them and THEN copied them to the same exact location once I had restored the disk image on the mac.
I should also mention that all MXF files are stored on a separate internal drive, so the media itself is 100% intact. I should also mention that I have no clue what the OMFI folders are stored on the computer, apparently in the root drive, that contain files such as .mdb and the Creating folder.
However, NOW whenever I try to open a project file in Avid under Shared the message comes up that it is
Unable to open “project name”
File does not contain a valid Avid domain headerI looked online and it appeared that some people said the project file was corrupted – however Data Rescue II said it was all intact and it appears 100% fine, which is odd. I know that the files were essentially trashed when I accidently erased the Avid partition, however it is odd it won’t open. Do I have to use a repair utility? I also tried opening the bins from the Avid Attic and it still gave the same message.
If anyone could help me out with this it would be GREATLY appreciated as I have all the media and the restored project files, just no way of opening them which is frustrating. I am willing to do whatever it takes to open them. Thank you!
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Try this:
You have a recovered project, lets call it Project01. It won’t open. At the OS level, move all your Avid projects out of the Shared folder and put them somewhere else for safekeeping, temporarily.
Open Avid and make a new project. Call it Project01. Close Avid. Go to the Shared folder and you’ll see that Project01 was made. Open it. Now open the Project01 folder you recovered using the DataRescue program. Copy all the bins from the original Project01 to your new Project01. Open Avid, open Project01 (the new one you just made), and see if all of your bins are there and work.
By making new projects with the same name and copying just the bins over, all the media in your original Project01 will maintain it’s relationships to your new Project01, and since it’s the project that seems corrupt but not the bins you should be in business.
Let me know if this works.
Michael
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