Hi there...
Quick couple of ?'s
What platform are you on?
What OS?
I see this is on 5.5.3 but did any of your settings come over from an earlier version?
Was this a project created in an earleir verison and then opened and worked on is say 5.5.3?
Need deets
marianna
Marianna
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "blafarm" <blafarm@...> wrote:
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> It was time to start deleting unused media for a specific project that has been dragging on -- and seems to be continuing to drag on.
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> So I opened my two Dailies Bins and then highlighted my latest sequence in my Sequence Bin -- and used the hamburger to Select Media Relatives.
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> After copying the "related" shots to a third bin -- and while everything was still highlighted and I sat there doing nothing -- MC performed an Auto-Save and wiped out the entire contents of both Dailies Bins. There is simply nothing left in those bins.
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> Fortunately, I keep a history of Project back-ups -- so I performed the exact same test using one of my archives of those Dailies Bins. Except this time -- I only opened one Dailies Bin. Low and behold -- when I followed the exact same steps -- the exact same thing happened during the next AutoSave.
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> So, be forewarned -- this behavior could easily ruin your day.
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> What is the solution? Well, as best as I can tell, if you click on any one clip from the source bin that you copied from -- AFTER you have performed the copy (thereby "deselecting" all of the clips in that bin) -- then Auto-Save will not delete the contents of that bin.
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> I have trouble imagining this behavior is limited to just my installation -- although it's certainly possible. But, if it's not limited to just me, this is a bug that very quickly needs to be squashed.
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> For the record, here are my Auto-Save Settings in 5.5.3
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> Auto-Save Interval -- 2 Minutes
> Inactivity Period -- 15 Seconds
> Force Auto-Save -- 17 Minutes
> Maximum bins in a project's attic -- 1000
> Max versions of a bin in the attic -- 50
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