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today my media is offline
today i opened my projects and found that all of the media went off-line. it is all on an external drive and was saved and rendered fine when i last shutdown.
when i opened it today it shows everything is off-line. the footage has not moved, the program has not changed – nothing is different.
why is this and how can i easily get the machine to recognize it?
hmmmmm
mick
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10 Replies
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Has the drive letter for the external changed?
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i’m not sure. maybe from E to F. how would i change it if it has?
mick
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Right click on “My Computer” and choose “Manage”. In the left console pane, expand “Storage” and select “Disk Management”. Right click on your drive in the right pane and choose “Change Drive Letter…”
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thanks, will do…
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Also realize, the order you turn the external drives on, will determine their drive letter.
(I suspect you have more than one external drive)
If not more than one drive, Mike’s tip on changing drive letters will work.
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nope, just the one drive… but changing the letter WORKED!!!
Thanks guys, what a relief!
mick
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Alternately, if you have ALL your media in one folder, you can just reconnect one file when it launches and it should find all the rest. If you have media spread all over the drive in subfolders, you will have to relink one for each folder. The best thing to do is rename the drive letter, but if for some reason that is difficult (say you move to another computer that has that drive letter already assigned to an internal CD or DVD), then the relinking should fix it. You have to relink when it is opening, I believe, for it to find them automatically.
Don
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If your external drive was set as the next available letter and you plug in a USB thumb drive etc, it’s not unusual for the drive to be bumped along one. It shouldn’t but XP seems to behave that way at times.
I set all my external drives starting at M.
Richard.
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[R. Hewitt] “If your external drive was set as the next available letter and you plug in a USB thumb drive etc, it’s not unusual for the drive to be bumped along one. It shouldn’t but XP seems to behave that way at times.
I set all my external drives starting at M.”
Good advice…I think I’ll follow that.
Drive letters…ugh. Welcome to Windows.
TimK,
Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
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Better yet, buy labels and put them on external drives 🙂
Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certified Expert, Premiere Pro
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/video
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