This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Help! MC 8.4 Media Drive Scanning Problem

One workaround would be to rename the "1" folder to a non-numeric name; e.g. "A" which will "lock" it so Avid won't bother to scan & re-index it. This should allow Avid to use the folder's current mediafiles which are probably 99.9% good with the exception of one or two bad files. This way your director can get to work immediately which gives you time to ship over another drive.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Jeff Hedberg jeff@unioneditorial.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

David,

One other suggestion.
Do a quick sort by file size to confirm that none of the files are 0 bytes in size.
Sometimes (at least around here) a file copy done on the finder level will THINK it copies the file, but only starts and forgets to fill it full of data.
That, obviously, corrupts the file.

But, yeah, I agree, divide and conquer sucks.

Jeff
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On Sep 28, 2015, at 7:00 PM, bruno@mansi.demon.co.uk [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Yep, it's a pain in the backside having to use the divide-and-conquer technique.

The other thing you might like to try is to download the free version of the MXF viewer from Telestream, called Switch. It plays the Avid MXF files directly from the numbered media folders. You may be able to identify the corrupt file(s) as they may not play/only partially play correctly.

If you find you get an error at start-up after installing (as I did), the likely reason is that you have to also install the 'Microsoft Platform Update for Windows 7.1'.

Bruno

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <davidadodson@...> wrote :

I've got a situation in which MC is freezing upon the scanning and indexing of new media drives.

More specifically, the project was created here in Los Angeles. A copy of all five numbered MXF folders of media was made and sent to Moscow for use by the director. But when he launches MC, and Composer sets in to scan and index the drives now connected to his system, it gets about nine seconds into scanning folder '1', and then just stops. The progress bar stops, and everything just sits there.

I had him take the number 1 folder out of the Avid MediaFiles folder (out of 'MXF', etc.), and place it in a holding folder outside of 'Avid MediaFiles', and then launch again. This time the scan began with numbered folder '2' and successfully completed the scan.

So what I'm assuming is that there is a corrupt MXF file somewhere in folder '1'. The question is, what's the best way to ferret it out? Is there any way — other than systematically removing batches of files at a time and trying to rescan — to filter for corrupt MXFs in a given folder?

Thanks,

DD

David Dodson
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