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ultrajosh
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The Protools Forum is down and I'm about to throw my computer out the window so I'm posting here. And let me say for the record that I hate ProTools and if I could get this stuff into CuBase I would be a happy camper.
Anyways, I have an entire album, including different people's mixes, on a 160GB hard drive. It was recorded in ProTools TDM and copied over to my drive. I had my friend with a Mac do a Save Copy As on all of the sessions with Enforce PC Compatibility turned on, and it worked great on my Windows machine! At first...
Today I went to listen to some stuff and ProTools couldn't find the fades or the audio files. They're all there, but the long names are all cut off with a ~ and a number in their place. The folder names are munged, too. I am able to manually Search for each file through the dialog by setting the radio button to "Unique ID", and then assign it but it will take decades to go through all these files, there's probably a thousand fades and audio files, maybe more. To make it even more aggravating it inter-sperses the fades and audio files so you have to navigate to a different folder depending on which pops up in the order.
I suspect this might have happened because another friend tried to open the sessions at a different studio, one that has an older ProTools setup, I think.
A) Did plugging the drive into an old version of Mac O/S or ProTools do this to my filenames?
B) Is there some utility that will fix this, or a setting in ProTools to key the files by their "Unique ID" instead of the filename?
As Charlie Brown might say: AUGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Anyways, I have an entire album, including different people's mixes, on a 160GB hard drive. It was recorded in ProTools TDM and copied over to my drive. I had my friend with a Mac do a Save Copy As on all of the sessions with Enforce PC Compatibility turned on, and it worked great on my Windows machine! At first...
Today I went to listen to some stuff and ProTools couldn't find the fades or the audio files. They're all there, but the long names are all cut off with a ~ and a number in their place. The folder names are munged, too. I am able to manually Search for each file through the dialog by setting the radio button to "Unique ID", and then assign it but it will take decades to go through all these files, there's probably a thousand fades and audio files, maybe more. To make it even more aggravating it inter-sperses the fades and audio files so you have to navigate to a different folder depending on which pops up in the order.
I suspect this might have happened because another friend tried to open the sessions at a different studio, one that has an older ProTools setup, I think.
A) Did plugging the drive into an old version of Mac O/S or ProTools do this to my filenames?
B) Is there some utility that will fix this, or a setting in ProTools to key the files by their "Unique ID" instead of the filename?
As Charlie Brown might say: AUGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!