This IS the Avid L2: RE: [Avid-L2] Re: Problem with old media

In the Avid ISIS readme it says;

Macintosh clients are able to create folders and filenames with characters that are not visible on Windows operating systems, or supported in Avid Unity ISIS. Remember, the following characters are illegal in workspace, workgroup, user, device, and storage group names: \, /, :, *, ?, ", <, >, +, and |

So that's official ;-)

Rupert Watson
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From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of dave_harrison_edit
Sent: 21 February 2012 19:21
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Problem with old media

When I had to do an upgrade from Meridian to Adrenaline a few years back, forward-slashes were the culprit. I've gotten different answers as to what is and isn't an illegal character. I guess the safest assumption is to use alpha-numeric only, but I never had any troubles with underscores nor dashes. A colon, semi-colon, brackets, exclamation points, etc should be regarded as illegal. The Meridian systems were forgiving of such things, but the newer systems are not.

If you haven't done it already, go in the Finder level into your media folder and use the search field up top to search for various non-alpha/numeric characters. Also be sure you don't have that media folder set up in the "Privacy" folder in the Spotlight Preferences pane--I don't think the search field will work if that folder is in there.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Lou Wirth <loutv@...> wrote:
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> Dave
> Could an older version of MC put illegals in the file names? Seems unlikely as it would make the files no longer compatible. What would be a few examples of illegal characters? All other trouble shooting solutions have failed and the Disk error prevails. Old media will not load.
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> On Feb 21, 2012, at 8:00 AM, dave_harrison_edit wrote:
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> > Lou, I've gotten a similar error in the past, and in my case it was caused by an illegal character in the filename. Check for illegal characters. You may be forced to pull any of those sorts of files if you have them. You might try saving a copy of any illegals then try renaming the file, replacing the illegal things with a letter. Worth a shot.
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> > --Dave
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> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Lou Wirth <loutv@> wrote:
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> > > Doesn't work. As soon as I drag the media into the new OMFI folder, the error comes up and folder becomes unreadable. Could be screwed.
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> > > On Feb 19, 2012, at 4:54 PM, johnrobmoore wrote:
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> > > > There was a recent thread on a similar topic. Take the existing omfi folder that is working and stuff it into another folder so it is no longer visable to the Avid. Create a title to create a new omfi folder on the drive. Take the problem files that you have fixed the permissions on and put them into this new omfi folder and let Avid rebuild the database. Create a new folder in avid and drag the rebuild msm database file to the bin and see if Avid populates the bin with clips of the problem media. This will tell you if the media works or not and eliminates relinking issues that might be causing you to not see the problem media in a final sequence. Also depending on the history of the media be it PC or mac to PC you might have those "_" ghost files in addition to the real media files. I think if you look you will see the _ files that are small or even 0K. I really don't think the permissions of the actual media files causes problems but the databases etc... certainly do.
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> > > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Lou Wirth <loutv@> wrote:
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> > > > > Maybe. But how do u fix that if unlocking the files don't work?
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> > > > > Sent from my iPhone
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> > > > > On Feb 19, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@> wrote:
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> > > > > > Could it be a permissions error with the files themselves?
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> > > > > > Steve Hullfish
> > > > > > contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> > > > > > author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
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> > > > > > On Feb 19, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Lou Wirth wrote:
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> > > > > > > I am trying to open a project from 2004. OMF media, cut on much older MC/Mac system. I am using my MacBookPro and MC 5.03. The media was archived on a firewire drive. I put the media in a new OMFI MediaFiles folder but upon opening project I just get this error:
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