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Subject: Re: [AE] Problem with AE 5 footage path between Windows and OSX
From: Jim Curtis <jpcurtis@me.com>
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:14:17 -0500
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Oh, and you CAN open an aep in TextWrangler, or TextEdit, but that's =
about all I can add.  I understand a lot of the words, but I wouldn't =
know what to do with them.  I guess search for "J:" and try replacing =
with the name of the drive that contains your project.  Be sure to "Save =
As" in case this blows up your neighborhood.


On Mar 26, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Michael Murphy wrote:

> Hello,
>=20
> I've been using AE on both Windows and Macs for years, using MacDrive =
with little problems. Today I tried to open an AE file that I created on =
a Windows 7  machine on my Lion machine, and all the footage is missing, =
as AE has saved the file path of the footage with a PC drive letter of =
J: instead of the name of the drive and OSX is ignoring this. I have =
NEVER had this problem before in over 7 years of using this workflow. I =
would find and replace the footage, but there are hundreds of files in =
various directories, so that is really impossible. To make matters =
worse, my Windows machine has just died so I can't open the and change =
it there
>=20
> I'm pretty certain that there is no way to find and replace the file =
path in AE. Is it possible to edit the AE file in any way to fix this =
problem (I don't think AE files are text editable?)
>=20
> Open to any ideas!!!
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> mm
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