[Tevan]

Hi guys,

Found it on my old 7.0 disc.

Thnx

[Tevan]

Dave,

Thanks for responding. I’ll follow your advise. I purchased 8.2.2 via the Media 100 tune up a year and a half ago. Not five when it was originally tested, but I understand what you are saying. I myself never thought I would be workling with such a big project in SD.

What is a reasonable size for documents? My largest document is a Program that is 2.2 MB. The program itself is 2 hours 22 minutes. Is that pushing it?

What is the “Media Index” file?

Thanks for your time/help.

[Tevan]

After everything was working normal I wanted to get to the bottom of it and figure out if it was in-fact a corrupt Media Index file, or just too many files in on Media Folder.

I unplugged my good SCSI drive and plugged in the old back up firewire drive with the old single Media Folder to do some tests. It still had the “Media Index” file in the single Media Folder. I took out the Media Index file and every thing still ran slow. I then noticed a new Media Index file pop up in the Media Folder. The new Media Index file was only 2 MB. As I opened various bins/programs I noticed the Media Index grew in size. That tells me this is definitely some sort of directory translator like you where saying.

Still with no Media Index file, it ran slow. So I split the media on the firewire drive and everything ran smooth again. The problem is definitely too many files in the Media Folder.

I remember when I first stared using Media 100 I was instructed to make separate Media Folders for audio and video to digitize to. Is that still true with my current system?

Everything is running smooth. I just wanted to get to the bottom of it.

Thanks.

[Tevan]

Floh,

Thanks for your quick response.

I have all the media files backed up to the firewire drive, and I did turn off the SCSI drive and try to relink the media to the firewire drive with the same results. That is what was telling me it was not the external drive that was giving me the problem. I talked to my local dealer, and they instructed me to bring the G4 in to run diagnostics. I brought it in and everything passed. My next step was going to be caling Media 100 tech support, but then I saw your reply.

I had already tried everything you instructed except for the last comment.

I first removed the “Media Index” file, then split up the media folder. I started up Media 100 and instantly noticed a difference. Everything was running fast again. I opened a bin and “Media Search” relinked everything as usual. I saved, and restarted and everything came up with no “Media Search.” The project was totally back to normal.

I think you are correct about the Media Index doing some sort of translations. I now have 2 media folders each with about 400 GB and everything is running smooth. There is no “media Index” file in either folder.

Judging from this problem, it is safe to say that Media 100i 8.2.3a on a Dual 1.42 GHz Power PC G4 does not run smooth if you have media in one folder over 820GB. It seems like Medai 100 should have given us the heads up on this? Have you ever encountered this problem before? How does the Media 100 HD systems fare under the same situation?

Thanks for saving me the time/headache Floh.

[Tevan]

I forgot to mention this as well. I found something I have never seen before. Inside my media folder there is a Media 100i Document named “Media index.” The file is 2GB. What is this? Does it have something to do with my project being so big?

Thanks.