Need Help - Missing Audio Files

[rthorderson]

Wow...this one has me stumped.

I have a project I finished back in Aug'09 (I am a DP early adopter, so I would have been on whichever version was available back then...6.x?)

I needed to do a remix of the project and when I opened it, several of the soundbites were missing. What is odd is that there are soundbites recorded when we first started the project that are OK, and others recorded as we finished up the project that are OK. But the missing files are from the middle of our project timeline (not to be confused with the middle of the sequence).

I tried using MacKeeper to check to see if I deleted them somehow...no luck...although, I am suspecting that MacKeeper is not savvy to .aif files (as it didn't find a single .aif file).

The analysis files are still there...just not the actual audio file.

ANY IDEAS??? It feels like some little switch was flipped to hide the files or some little corruption like that. I am completely lost...and REALLY not wanting to try and recreate the original tracks.

[Tim]

Are he files still listed in the soundbites window? If so, what does it say in the Disk column?

[rthorderson]

Are he files still listed in the soundbites window? If so, what does it say in the Disk column?

Timbo, I think your intuition is spot on...it is pointing to a disk that does not exist any longer. More accurately, it exists, but I renamed it (from "Studio 1" to "Studio"). I record onto non-OS drives...so this is not the OS drive. What is weird is that there are files created that same day in the project that did not get lost (some before, some after the Soundbite Create Time).

My gut tells me that the files are on the disk somewhere, but I think most of the recovery tools rely on the trash method to work their magic. These files were lost with some other method.

This is a drag...

[Tim]

Have you searched for a file name from the project (or .aif from that date) in the Studio drive? What if you rename the drive to Studio 1 and open the project again?