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Save As question
I’m doing a “save as” in order to gather any stray files I may have used in a project into one folder but I get this message and when I look in the folder, there is no .Veg file.
What’s going on?
Thanks
Roger Bansemer
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[Roger Bansemer] “I’m doing a “save as” in order to gather any stray files I may have used in a project into one folder but I get this message and when I look in the folder, there is no .Veg file.
What’s going on?”Vegas Pro is telling you that the folder that you chose to save to already has a file called “Indian Photo.jpg” and because you told it to copy the media, and the media has the same name, it is going to rename the file that it is copying to “Indian Photo – 1.jpg” to avoid overwriting the existing file.
This will only happen with you “Save As..” with “Copy Media” to a folder that is not empty. This is never advisable. The whole purpose of “Copy Media” is to make a new folder and archive the entire project with media into it. That folder should always be empty or else you can have all sorts of duplicate files that you did not want.
~jr
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I did know about not saving to a folder that had files in it as renames everything and you end up with two sets of files.
BUT the folder I was saving to was completely empty. Even made a new folder on a different drive so it wouldn’t save to the same drive and I get the same message!
You don’t suppose that TimeWarp plugin has anything to do with this?
Roger Bansemer
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[Roger Bansemer] “BUT the folder I was saving to was completely empty. Even made a new folder on a different drive so it wouldn’t save to the same drive and I get the same message!”
It sounds like perhaps you took the same file from two different place on your hard drive. (e.g., D:\folder1\myfile.jpg and D:\folder2\myfile.jpg when combined into folder3 produce two copies of myfile.jpg) Now that you are consolidating into one folder, you have a name conflict. If it’s really the same file, you will probably want to correct the new project by deleting one and replacing the other in the media pool.
~jr
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That was the fix. Some of this stuff is just so baffling. Thanks John.
Roger Bansemer
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