URGENT PROBLEM!!

[rock15478]

Please Please Please help me out. I'm in extreme need for some help FAST. I have a drum template file that I created that I use at the beginning of all sessions that I open before tracking. I then rename the session for whatever song the band is going to be doing. I accidently put the session in my main folder that says "Pro Tools Sessions"...but that folder has subfolders that has a specific folder for each song...and each folder contains a folder called Audio Files for the audio files for that particular song...OKAY, I must not have been thinking and I know that I saved the session to the main folder (only the session shows up) but I don't know where the audio files were being saved to. My guess was that they were being saved to the original folder I had my drum template it...NOPE. I also thought that maybe they would have created a folder called "Audio Files" within the folder I put the session...nope. When I open the session, I get a message saying the audio files couldn't be found. When it automatically searches for them to be re-linked, they can't be found. When I manually search for them, I can't find them. I searched with Spotlight and they seem to be nowhere. Are they nowhere or are they somewhere? We just spent an 8 hour day tracking a song that FINALLY got perfect. If I lost this song, the band will literally kill me. PLEASE please help me out. Thanks

[EGS]

In the audio regions bin, select "Show full pathnames", and expand the width of this window so you can read the entire pathname. Now you'll know exactly where they are.

[rock15478]

It doesn't find them. That's what I'm saying. It knows where they SHOULD be, but they're not there. I have no idea why.

[EGS]

Yikes... Well, if you were recording and playing back, they were written to a some drive somewhere. Did you have an external drive attached during tracking that is no longer connected? What does Disk Allocation tell you?

[rock15478]

It doesn't make any sense...Disk Allocation tells me they should be in a folder called "Drums: Audio Files"...This is where my template was originally...however, they aren't in there..but I saved the sessioon in a different folder...the session opens...It created a folder called "Audio Files" in this main folder, but nothing is in the folder at all! I'm so lost, I hope I haven't lost this.

[rock15478]

anyone??? please???

[filosofem]

rock15478

Have you tried DigiBase Workspace?





filosofem

[Mikeren]

rock,
with the template did you immediately 'save as' a project--that would create a neat folder with the proj. and audio files in one place. My fear is that you may have saved a template (sans audio files) rather than saved as a project. Otherwise--if you use a template I guess the drum track names don't change except for take # and project prefix. Document the exact names of the missing tracks. A full manual search may turn up duplicate take #'s with different lengths in the same audio file folder. That would be the one you're looking for.

best wishes,

MR

[rock15478]

It tells me the names of the files it's looking for...it shows them in italics...But they aren't on my computer anywhere...If I search in spotlight, they don't exist. If I search by date created, it doesn't bring up anything with the right length. I need help fast! I really hope these aren't gone.

[dailan]

you probably did this already but, when I use templates it sometimes creates an Audio Files folder in the system drive (did you look there?)

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