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Disappearing Files
Working in PT 11 under Win 10 here. Here's the scenario:
Download received file to download folder Import audio file into PT Delete original file from d-load folder Open session and PT can't find file - wants to re-link Restore original to d-load folder and clip restored into session. Watcha think? |
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Re: Disappearing Files
Are you copying the file to your Audio folder in the Import dialogue? Have you gone to Processing Preferences and checked "Automatically Copy Files on Import"?
Whenever and wherever Pro Tools asks to copy audio, make sure you do. One "trick" is to manually copy the audio into your session's Audio folder and then Import it into the session from there.
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Re: Disappearing Files
That trick^^^. Any time you bring in audio, whether by download, or from an external drive, its really easy to have this happen(even if you set the preference to always copy audio on import). After being stung by this a few times, I now do 1 of 2 things;
1-drag the entire folder(from DL or external drive) and copy it to my audio drive first. Then open, solve any routing issues(that usually happen when bringing a session for another rig) and save. Or 2-create a new session and drop the imported files into the new session folder, so I know exactly where the files are(and I import from there, not from the original source)
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Re: Disappearing Files
Thanks guys - I'll check out both methods
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Re: Disappearing Files
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So, I suppose the copy-on-import pref is broken?
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