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

Any time I see errors regarding 'DISK_FILE_NOT_FOUND' there is always a stray '/' character somewhere in a file.
Someone named their sequence using the character, and then rendered effects use that character in them... usually something like that.

I don't know how the old version could create them and the new one chokes on them - but that's what usually does it for us here.

One other thing for you to look at (different error message - but perhaps will help you out)...
I had a bunch of *.msm files get 'locked' somehow... the somehow is not exactly clear (it involved migrating from Unity to ISIS) however - I had to go through many, many, many files looking to see if they were locked or not.

Want the shortcut to fixing that?

Use the terminal (you mentioned you were on mac) and run this command:
chflags -R nouchg /Volumes/Name_of_Harddrive

it goes through and unlocks all files below the starting point you give it.
(you can drag and drop the drive on to the terminal window instead of using the /Volumes/Name_of_Harddrive part if you'd like)

Like I said, I don't think you have locked files... cause you wouldn't notice until the Avid tries to save a render... or re-write the database file in some way... then it complains that it can't access it.

I'm still betting that you have a '/' character in one of your files - and it's messing up the media database creation process.

Jeff

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On Feb 21, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Rupert Watson wrote:

> In the Avid ISIS readme it says;
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> 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 |
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> So that's official ;-)
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> Rupert Watson
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> www.root6.com
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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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> > > > > > > > Exception: 'DISK_FILE_NOT_FOUND'
> > > > > > > > An error occurred validating the media directory:
> > > > > > > > (name of drive:OMFI MediaFiles
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> > > > > > >
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