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| Hello listers, Thanks for everyone who chimed in to help. Managed through peripheral removal and/or repeated incantations to get the PC booted long enough to get the project consolidated and opened on my old but stable mac. Brian, I still hear the Total Training singers sometimes when I am working on an effect with particular pizazz. Dappa doo woooowww!!! mm On Mar 26, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Michael Murphy wrote: > Thanks for all you help guys. > > Yes, it's crazy that my PC has nosedived, otherwise I would do just that. I'm in panic mode as I'm to deliver this project this evening (I still have work to do) so of course I'm not thinking straight. I've just never had this particular problem. Quite worried that if I don't get this PC working (quite possible) that I will never be able to get this file in shape again. > > > mm > > > On Mar 26, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Brian Maffitt wrote: > >> A pity there's no way to open the original back on the PC, because once you did, you could simply "collect files" to consolidate everything into an easily-portable, cross-platform package. >> >> Brian >> >>> Michael, you're going to need somebody more capable than me to answer that. I was just making a guess that you could change the drive name in a text editor. I'm probably over my head just making that speculation. As far as I know, saving the document in TextEdit may convert it to a plain text document, where what you need it to do is save it as an aep. But again, I'm clutching at straws here, and throwing ideas out until somebody more experienced with this can chime in. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mar 26, 2012, at 6:23 PM, Michael Murphy wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Jim, >>>> >>>> I did a search and replace in Textedit, replacing "J:" with "FIREWIRE02:" (the name of the drive), but when I open the file in AE, I get an error that the file is corrupt. Is there any specific way i need to save the AE file from Textedit >>>> >>>> mm >>>> >>>> On Mar 26, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Jim Curtis wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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, >>>>>> >>>>>> 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 >>>>>> >>>>>> 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?) >>>>>> >>>>>> Open to any ideas!!! >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> >>>>>> mm >>>>>> +---End of message---+ >>>>>> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> +---End of message---+ >>>>> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> >>>> >>>> >>>> +---End of message---+ >>>> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> >>> >>> >>> +---End of message---+ >>> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> >> >> >> +---End of message---+ >> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
