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Will not reconnect media!!
I had a massive hard drive failure. I managed to copy the contents to a new drive… It seemed to work, however…
WHen I opened the FCP project file, all of the over 1000 files had gone offline. ANd when I reconnect them… it doesn’t take.
When I went to the individual quicktime files and tried to open them in quicktime I get this error:
“The movie cannot be opened” “The resource map is incorrect”
This is a huge project. Is there a way to fix the resource map?
Any guidance would be very appreciated. Thank you.
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Sounds like the files are corrupted. If you have Disk Warrior, try running it. Be prepared to re-capture all of this material.
Arnie
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Disk Warrior informs me that the files are “damaged and cannot be repaired”.
I assumed as much, but was hoping for some kind of magic bullet… Thank you for your guidance.
This… really stinks.
-Jim -
do the files show the quicktime icon in the capture scratch? if not, then you can simply create new resource forks by batch or script using something like A Better Finder Attributes 4. we had a backup drive deleting the resource forks on files and they all were showing up as linux exe files in the finder and we could not relink to them until I made them back to being Quicktime movies.
We had errors like this on our xsan because of permissions. you could try setting that volume (assuming its not shared or networked) to ignore permissions, or you could change permissions on everything on the drive to be owned by the account you normally log in as.
A couple of things to try i guess before recapturing…
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Yes. The files DO show as Quicktime files. At this stage, it seems I have the director getting a backup drive to me. All is not lost, its just delayed.
But thank you for the input.
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I was experiencing a similar issue today. I have a film that I am editing and I have been trying to simply share the FCP file with the filmmaker. He has the media on his drive & have the media on mine as I am working remotely.
Today, I was “simply” copying the FCP to his drive (as I have both drives right now) and I could not get his media to relink with the edited sequence / FCP file from my drive just as you have described.
I would try to relink it, it would find it and after it said that it was reconnecting, there would be no connection. I did this many times, restarted, etc…
I started to copy all of the media over to remedy this when I realized what was the issue.
Somehow my media was set to show the extension “.mov” while the original drive with the media was not.
I actually went into the program “file renamer” and asked it to add the “.mov” suffix to all of the source media on his drive.
I opened FCP again, went through the relinking steps and this time it worked perfectly.
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