Hi Tony,
this sounds weird!
From what you've wrote I guess the RAID is not the problem, but the sequences from another editor who's running MC 5.0.x.
Do you open the Project that you get from the other editor?
If so, try opening one of those bins from a known-good project and see how it behaves. If you have still problems, copy the suspect sequence into a new one. Next step would be 'repairsequences' which you enter in the console, but be careful with such commands!
In general Avid speaks of 'Bin Compatibility' - you can open bins in older or newer versions compared to the version it created. I'd create a new project with the same name as the on you get from the other editor, close MC and copy only the bins (and folders that contain bins) over to the new project. Then it should work just fine.
If this works or not - I'm a big fan of checking drives (both system & media)! Therefore use Disk First Aid to 'repair disk' as well as 'repair permissions' on a regular basis (each 2nd week). And from my experience it is very helpful if you activate 'ignore ownership' on your media drives.
If you're a serious Mac fan / supporty you should own a copy of DiskWarrior from Alsoft (about 100 bucks) which is a great tool because it really helps the file system to stay healthy, startup your Mac faster etc. And if one of your drives is sick, DW can often heal it quickly! :-)
HTH & good luck!
Ben
PS: Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with Alsoft but I'm a enthusiastic User of DiskWarrior since version 1.0 and I recovered an unbelievable amount of data in all those years by using it! :-)
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Tony Capelli <tcapelli@...> wrote:
>
> So I've had this before in the past a few times and just worked around it
> but I'm starting to notice a trend. I'm on a Mac 10.6.3, Avid 4.0.5 Mojo DX
> trying to online a show from another editor who has the exact same Mac
> tower the only difference is he's running 5.0.4 (or whatever the last
> update was for 5.0) and when I open his sequence the Internal RAID on my
> system doesn't show. We render to the RAID and place show media on one of
> six Dulce System drives we have. The offline editor does the same except he
> doesn't have a Dulce. He just uses a couple external G drives when
> offlining where his media is. The AEs at night will then move his media to
> one of my Dulce drives and then prep the shows. This is the third time now
> I have gotten a show to online from him and only him, where the RAID won't
> show. It happened about a year ago and now has happened twice in about a
> month. Two completely different shows that don't share anything like GFX,
> common elements or b-roll.
>
> Any other project I open the RAID shows and works just fine. The RAID never
> goes away from the desktop and I can import bins and elements from the RAID
> into the problem projects just fine. The RAID even shows under "Media
> Creation" when I open the project with no bins open, it's just when the
> sequence is opened that the RAID will go away. The annoying part is the
> RAID in the problem project will show back up intermittently. The last show
> I worked with, after re-creating titles to one of my Dulce drives the RAID
> showed up after a re-boot of Avid and stayed there for most of the day,
> then out of the blue disappeared. None of the media or renders on the RAID
> went away, I just lost the ability to render to it. The AE last night told
> me the RAID was there for most of the prep for this new show but when he
> went to render out at the end of the prep it was gone.
>
> I make a new project when I go to online so it's not a project issue and
> I've also made new sequences and cut in his edit into the new sequence but
> the issue will still arise. The RAID then will also not show up after it
> disappears in ANY project until I re-start Avid. Anyone had this and know
> what I'm missing or what needs to be done. Any ideas would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Tony
>
>
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