This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Feature film edit stuck in "mounting volumn" loop

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

[Avid-L2] Re: Feature film edit stuck in "mounting volumn" loop

Ben, thank you so much, my project now loads!

I managed to close my bins, fighting off the mounting loop with 18 clicks. Then I quit Avid and, as you prescribed, I trashed the 2 msm files. Then I shut the system down, and myself--going to bed with a prayer to the Avid god...

This morning I re-booted and everything launched fine. I watched what looked like Avid rebuilding the databases as I loaded coffee.

I checked my disk permissions:
roberto (me) read & write
fetching read & write
everyone read only

I'm not sure what Fetching means here? Should I re-set it?

Thanks again for your help!! Very, very happy to able to cut again.
-Roberto

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@...> wrote:
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> I can only suggest the usual suspects:
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> 1- New User settings
> 2- Quit Avid, then trash media databases (the 2 msm files inside each Avid MediaFiles folder). Relaunch Avid and those will rebuild.
> 3- Check permissions on the drives (cmd-i). I've had weirdness where permissions (on a mac) would change on their own for a drive and cause problems.
> 4- If on a mac, also use Disk Utility to rebuild the permissions, then do a full restart of the system.
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> Those are some of the usual things to try . . . anyone have any others that I'm forgetting at the moment?
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> HTH,
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> B
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> On May 7, 2013, at 6:05 PM, roberto.miller@... wrote:
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> > Thanks for responding, Terence. I searched the project folder and didn't find "Avid Mediafiles" there. However, I did find an "Avid Mediafiles" on my main media drive and also one on my Avid Media Drive.
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> > A few weeks ago I bought an SSD drive and thought it might help performance to have all Avid media renders go to it, and it's been working fine till now.
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> > To test, I just renamed the "Avid Mediafiles" on my main media drive, and relaunched. Some clips and renders were off-line, but the "mounting volume loop" problem was still present.
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> > Thanks for the suggestion, though. Happy to try further ones!
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> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@> wrote:
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> > > You probably have a folder labelled "Avid Mediafiles" in your project folder. Move it out and the problem will go away.
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> > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "roberto.miller@" <roberto@> wrote:
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> > > > Shooting this flare into the air in hopes that one or more seasoned pros have some insight that will help us get back to cutting our film.
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> > > > Upon loading our project I get:
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> > > > "This volume has not yet been mounted by the application. You can either mount all volumes or load another project." It would be nice if it said which volume...
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> > > > Clicking "Mount all Volumes" leads to: "The volume was not found after mounting all volumes"
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> > > > Clicking OK leads to an infinitely repeating loop. Usually.
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> > > > I thought it might be due to a couple of minor VFX clips I received and put put into the last edit, but I took them off-line and the problem remains.
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> > > > Ideas to address this?
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> > > > System and Project stats:
> > > > - MC 6.5.2 on Mac PB running 10.8.2, i7 core, Thunderbolt to 6TB media drive and a 255GB SSD drive for media renders
> > > > - we are 95% AMA linked to Apple ProRes clips (which has been working fairly well for our production clips, despite 45 seconds to close any bin).
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> > > > Any help GREATLY appreciated!! Same for pointers to an Avid tech, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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> > > > Thanks!
> > > > Roberto Miller
> > > > roberto@
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