This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] MC7 - Disappearing Bin Contents

Friday, January 10, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] MC7 - Disappearing Bin Contents

The strange thing is that once bins are in the Attic, the Avid doesn't touch them. I wonder if you sent one of the back up bins to someone else, whether another system could read them? And I think someone else asked this, but what are the SIZE of all of the bins in the Attic? The same? Small? Especially check the bin with the sequence in it, if you organize your bins that way.

Finally, in the Attic, if you have TWO instances of Avid - like a Media Composer install and an old Symphony install, it's possible to have MULTIPLE Attics, in which case, you could be looking in the wrong Attic. I don't think that's the case, since you said you found the bins in the Attic, but that depends on how you name your bins.

Steve

On Jan 10, 2014, at 8:43 AM, Mark Myers <MarkM@SR-Pro.com> wrote:

Mac,
Stand alone system.
Not backed up - but the bins in the attic exhibit the same behavior.

On 1/9/2014 10:49 PM, John Pale wrote:

Mac or PC?

Unity/Isis or standalone ?

If Mac, are your projects backed up by Time Machine?

On Thursday, January 9, 2014, Andy Liebman wrote:

For what it's worth, about 12 years ago -- a year before founding EditShare -- I was experimenting with having two XPress Pro Windows workstations working off the same network volume. Both were writing to that volume -- one was capturing, the other was rendering, and both happened to finish their writing activities at the exact same moment. All of a sudden, both Avid applications went "poof" in tandem. They just vanished from their respective screens. When I went to open up the Project I was working on, the bins themselves were all there but every one of them was empty, and so were all of the bin copies in the Attic. On both workstations. It was as if, hidden deep within the application, there was some self-destruct code that I had tickled.

Fortunately I had backups from a couple of weeks earlier but I lost two full weeks of work, a couple of days before a rough cut was due for Frontline. It was not fun.

I reported this "bug" to Avid but nothing ever came of my report.

I hope this didn't happen to you.

Andy Liebman

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