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Issue with transferring files from an external NTFS drive.
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<blockquote data-quote="lclev" data-source="post: 1660269" data-attributes="member: 307555"><p>Hi Jase!</p><p></p><p>What a mess you have been handed. It is bad enough when you have to move a project that is your own to a different machine and relink everything. I can't imagine doing it on a project someone else started and you have no idea how it was organized or where stuff is. We all do it slightly different and have preferences. Sounds like the original editor on this project can not finish the project for what ever reason. I imaging you crystal ball is not providing the answers you need either. ;D</p><p></p><p>Hidden file icons in Windows will look slightly transparent which means they are hidden. On the external drive the hidden files will mainly be some system files (recycle bin) and some folders or files with the name having a period at the start of it. Nothing you should need for the video should be hidden.</p><p></p><p>At this point I assume you are making lists of files you need that are missing. If the files are off-line with Premiere that means they are physically missing (as you suspect) or corrupt (power outages will do that) and can not be used. Can I safely assume all these files at one time worked in the project? That these are not new additions? Because some encodings that have an avi extension will not work with Premiere and will need to be converted. Just a thought.</p><p></p><p>Starting new would be my preference if I could not figure out what the other guy did. I had one of the people here come in with a project they could not get to finish out to a DVD in Encore. The project went so far and crashed. I finally figured out he did not understand Encore (which amazed me as he has been doing this for a few years now.) He imported several videos as timelines and then put them together in one of the timelines. He set his markers for the menu in the new timeline and well... it was a convoluted mess. When I stripped it down and got rid of all the unlinked and unnecessary timelines it was fine. But I still can't figure out how he got his other projects to work... <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Smirk.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Smirk:" title="Smirk :Smirk:" data-shortname=":Smirk:" /></p><p></p><p>I started editing with windows and moved to mac. Once I got the differences down between the different operating systems it has been smooth sailing. I have no issues moving a project from one os to the other and I thank Adobe for that. </p><p></p><p>Good luck and if you have any other questions post back. I will try to help. </p><p></p><p>BTW: I like to use extFAT on the USB external drives I use between my windows and mac editors. I have had no problems doing this although others will caution you because it is not a journaled format. </p><p></p><p>Lisa</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lclev, post: 1660269, member: 307555"] Hi Jase! What a mess you have been handed. It is bad enough when you have to move a project that is your own to a different machine and relink everything. I can't imagine doing it on a project someone else started and you have no idea how it was organized or where stuff is. We all do it slightly different and have preferences. Sounds like the original editor on this project can not finish the project for what ever reason. I imaging you crystal ball is not providing the answers you need either. ;D Hidden file icons in Windows will look slightly transparent which means they are hidden. On the external drive the hidden files will mainly be some system files (recycle bin) and some folders or files with the name having a period at the start of it. Nothing you should need for the video should be hidden. At this point I assume you are making lists of files you need that are missing. If the files are off-line with Premiere that means they are physically missing (as you suspect) or corrupt (power outages will do that) and can not be used. Can I safely assume all these files at one time worked in the project? That these are not new additions? Because some encodings that have an avi extension will not work with Premiere and will need to be converted. Just a thought. Starting new would be my preference if I could not figure out what the other guy did. I had one of the people here come in with a project they could not get to finish out to a DVD in Encore. The project went so far and crashed. I finally figured out he did not understand Encore (which amazed me as he has been doing this for a few years now.) He imported several videos as timelines and then put them together in one of the timelines. He set his markers for the menu in the new timeline and well... it was a convoluted mess. When I stripped it down and got rid of all the unlinked and unnecessary timelines it was fine. But I still can't figure out how he got his other projects to work... :Smirk: I started editing with windows and moved to mac. Once I got the differences down between the different operating systems it has been smooth sailing. I have no issues moving a project from one os to the other and I thank Adobe for that. Good luck and if you have any other questions post back. I will try to help. BTW: I like to use extFAT on the USB external drives I use between my windows and mac editors. I have had no problems doing this although others will caution you because it is not a journaled format. Lisa [/QUOTE]
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