Locked tracks, now "files not found"

Hi HT, Yes, I unlocked them, Saved, closed the file and reopened. No change.

btw, it's not every RI track that is blank, but most of them.

??

Didn't copy from any other project.

I don't find any of the missing files in the Media folder.

And to be more specific, the Tracks are still there, it's just that the Regions (original size) are now just a straight line with File Not Found as the name. And the Tracks have the names I assigned to them.

The only other variable is that I upgraded from Tiger to Lion, but had hard drive damage. Then finally got my old Home Folder in Lion (that's a story in itself). Then had to reinstall GB '08 from the install disc. I had opened the Project and played it fine once or twice, then did the Lock thing.

Wonders never cease.

See you're still not sleeping.

I'll give that a try. Should be fun at least. First I'll have to dig out the disc. I recently moved (you may notice I just updated my Location) so everything's not where it was. I'll post back.

Thanks for your help, as always.

that COULD answer the how, though one might question the fact that just those files got lost, still...

especailly since they played just fine after the new HD was installed and I brought all the files back in from an external backup HD.

Maybe nature's way of telling me to upgrade to current GB. (It's Nature's Way of telling you something's wrong...)

HangTime wrote:

oof, thats a long way from here, but I hear Colorado is a really nice state.

good luck, and do post back (hopefully with some good news!)

A heck of a lot nicer than NYC. (with some nice perks, too!)

So, I restored an older version of the project using Time Machine.

Did as you suggested and created a copy of the current project file.

Copied one of the missing audio files into the Media folder of the new copy.

Worked like a charm! The Regions were back in the right tracks - even where I had copied Regions into different Tracks.

(btw, I was mistaken that the missing audio files were there in Freeze Files; they were gone completely)

I then copied it into the current project (the one I made the copy of) and that worked too.

I'm gonna identify the other ones and copy them in as well. Let you know if anything else goes wrong.

Thank God for backups.

Message was edited by: p oflynn