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Subject: Re: [AE] Problem with AE 5 footage path between Windows and OSX
From: Michael Murphy <murphy@lasercade.com>
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:16:38 -0700
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Yep, but there are literally hundreds of directories nested quite deeply =
( this was created using a collected archive of a large project) thus my =
problem.

mm

On Mar 26, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Jim Curtis wrote:

> You should only have to find one footage item per directory, and Ae =
will see the others in each directory. =20
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> On Mar 26, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Michael Murphy wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> 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
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>> 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,
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>> mm
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