Re: Media Vanished - Reconnect Issue

I've had issues in the past w/ media going offline and having to reconnect. Usually not an issue except for the time it takes to do the connecting.

This time, though, I'm having a much stranger issue. Been working on this project in FCP 5.1.4 for the last day and a half (doing some roundtripping between it and Soundtrack Pro) and all has been fine. About an hour ago, 79 media files randomly went offline and seem to have completely disappeared from the external drive. They are literally nowhere to be found in any folders and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason which ones or why. They might be whole scenes, pieces of scenes, renamed files, originally named files.

I'm not expecting a solve with this, but would like to know if anyone has ever had the same issue. Everything I'm working on is on a 500mb G-Drive via firewire. Luckily, we have two cloned drives so nothing's been lost . . . except productivity. And we're on a tight deadline. Should I repair via disk utility?

Thanks in advance.

Jason

Hi Jason,

I would suggest that you run a Disk Utility on both your boot and media drives.

--ken

Hi Jason,

Ken is right, run Disk Utiliy. Good thing you have backups, though. I recall some major fuzz about media disappearing without any reason in FCP 5.0, but as you are running 5.1.4 this should not be the issue.

Best wishes,

Ronny

Just for grins, check the Trash. I once had a project just up and move itself to the Trash...

DD

Hi guys. Thanks so much for the feedback. In case you were wondering how it turned out. I did run Disk Utility, but it said the drives were perfectly fine and didn't need to be repaired. Unfortunately, they weren't in the trash either. Luckily, we had the backups so it was nothing more than an extra trip into the production company to re-synch the drives we're using . . . but still, the randomness of which files disappeared has really freaked me out and I'm now making backups of everything!

Thanks again for all your help.

Well it’s not an urban myth. I do know of a few rare cases.

It is freaky.

--ken