If you have a bin that's 186K, that sounds like something is definitely in there. Send the bin to someone else. Maybe see if Avid can pull something from the bin that's 186K. Maybe ask Marianna.
This was, of course, a low/no budget job for a friend. All the clips, and probably 15 short sequences with no cuts, only color correction (a live concert chopped up by song) were in one bin.
The bins are 12k, which is pretty small, but possible I guess.
I think I hosed the Attic by opening the project several times trying to figure out what was going on. I should have copied the attic version off as soon as I realized something was fishy. There's only one copy in the attic though, so that's very strange.
The second project was the same thing. Took a field reel from a Panisonic camera into the Avid for a friend, overlayed a TC track and exported windowburns so he could share them without them being swiped. Maybe 30 clips, 4 sequences. All gone. Bin is 10k.
When I check the attic for this second project, I see 6 bin copies - which get progressively larger - 4 k growing over the uses to 186k
No good deed goes unpunished......
On 1/10/14 11:04 AM, Steve Hullfish wrote:
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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.
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