[Sam Duggan]

…oh right yeah, I just rebooted and everything was fine!

I forgot Avid only rebuilds databases properly when it opens, not when you do ‘refresh media databases’… doh!

What would we do without the old ‘off and on again’ technique.

[Sam Duggan]

Guys, it’s a bit late I know but I’ve got a similar problem.
I’m on MC5 and have recently moved RAID servers and am in the messy stage between using old and new.

I wanted to manually move some .mxfs from the old server onto the new so moved them in the same directory as the rest of the files that Avid can see without a problem (i.e. AvidMediaFiles/MXF/1).
However, despite doing a ‘Refresh media directories’ and ‘Load Media Database’, and even deleting the database files within the media directory, I can’t get Avid to see the footage, either when trying to relink or simply using the media tool.

Any ideas what’s happening? The mxfs were created using the same MC5, the same computer, and in the same project as the rest, I’m only doing these few manually because I set off a big import on the old server at the same time as the main server transfer was happening (so it got overlooked). And I can see them if I log into a the old server version of the project, so they are valid mxfs!

Thanks,

Sam