[Robert Spieler]

Thanks Joby for your thoughts and testing!
I hope I can fix this as I don’t want to back to external media. As you mentioned it is a pain when you want to delete clips in the library. I also had issues with missing links and then consolidating a library that contains about 3000 clips. Maybe it is about the size of my library which gets me all the issues. Further testing needs to be done.

[Robert Spieler]

Here is an interesting video from Larry Jordan which explains that copying Media between Libraries should actually work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCXUQLUE1P4

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[Robert Spieler]

Thank you. Now I know I was not talking about hardlinks as these are only work on the same volume. What I was referring to in my initial post are these kind of links you get when you pointing to a different volume. This can either be external or internal media.

However, there is really something strange going on with my archiving library. Most likely it has something to do with using media internally on a NAS drive. Support for that came with FCPX 10.3. Maybe it has still some bugs. With my more in depth testing this morning I experienced even more issues. Copying a clip from NAS library to library on my laptop gave me a link to the original drive on the first go (looking at it by ‘show me in finder’) Repeating the test with a second clip gave me a link on my local library on my laptop which completely broke with a missing link a minute later. Both libraries are configured to hold all media in the library.

[Robert Spieler]

In my case it isn’t really a benefit as I want to physically move the data from a slow archiving storage device to my fast storage for editing. I am not sure if this is a bug as it says copying but it doesn’t actually. Furthermore all the information I could get from Apple or some Pros are saying that it should move the data in this case.

[Robert Spieler]

That’s a good idea. I could even add the sort by USAGE function as a second condition to my smart bin which already sorts for ≠ target folder.

I really have to look more into all the smart bin functions in resolve. There is so much to learn!

Thanks again

[Robert Spieler]

Thanks very much for your reply!

“Relink to new files” has now solved one of the problems. I’ve overlooked this option. However, the overall process seems still a bit cumbersome. This seems to be a one-off feature when you start your project. It works perfectly fine when you bring ALL your footage in and trigger the media management “copy entire project” function to bring all the clips to my target folder/drive.
As I’m usually go back and forth in my editing process which means at some point I’ll find out that I need another piece of footage, like a light leak or stock footage this doesn’t help much. When you try to start copying all clips of the entire project again it fails because it can’t skip files that are already there.

My workaround for the moment is to make a smart bin which refers to all footage that does not match my target folder. In doing it this way I’m able to automatically add up clips in that bin and then after a while I can manually select them all and do the copy clip function in media management. This is far from ideal…a macro which does this for me would be much better but I can live with it.