Pro Tools WTF?
DJ_Enki
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So I was working on a Pro Tools session earlier, and when I closed it up, I saved it and backed up the entire session folder. I open it up later to work on it some more, and half my audio files are missing. Not just stuff I had recorded today, but stuff that is weeks old. They aren't in the backup folder, either. They just disappeared. I tried to find/relink thing, and they're nowhere to be found.Do I have any hope of finding these audio files, or am I seriously going to have to record this stuff all over again?F[/b]uck computers.
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i have yet to have find a fix and have delayed rerecording my release. annoying.
Regions wherever.
Good luck
I recently had an issue where I had to do a system restore, and for some reason it renamed the folder with all the audio files. When i searched for the one file in the session not called "audio001" or whatever, I found them all, dragged them to where they're supposed to be and just reopened the session.
Good luck...
This is the right answer - I don't work in protools but a similar thing happened to me, turned out the program was saving audio files in a whole 'nother area of the drive. Now I keep my eye out, if you're moving files back and forth from an external this can be an issue.
JS
I had some scoring files that were absolutely massive and involved importing session data/tracks from other sessions. I, for lack of knowing, did not click on the "copy audio data" tab, so basically it just tagged the original files and referred back to them in the session. Eventually, when i erased those files (thinking i had imported/copied them into new files) they disappeared for good and attempts to relink sent the session in a tailspin.
bottom line, always check your disk allocations after importing audio, tracks, shit, anything really.
also, check your trash cans. good luck
Yeah, I still see the greyed-out names and the blank audio regions in the edit window (with all the edits still visible--so much work completely gone), but searching my internal and external drives for any of the names comes up blank, even after I tried that invisible items thing.
Checked my disk allocation, too--it did switch drives at some point from external to internal, which is really weird, but there's nothing in the new allocation. The files are completely gone. Not on any drive, not in the trash can, nowhere. Pro Tools just decided it didn't want them anymore. Goddammit. It's gonna be such a pain in the ass to try to piece this back together again.
Thanks for all the advice, guys, but it appears as though technology has screwed me yet again. F[/b]uck motherfu[/b]ckin' computers. (Yes mad, doggie.)
No shit - I lost an entire (records) mix this way, and had to re-track several songs I was working on from scratch behind this. Eyyiiissss it awwwwwl just waaasted tiiiime