Return-Path: Received: from mail-qe0-f46.google.com ([209.85.128.46] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4995807 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:16:00 +0100 Received: by mail-qe0-f46.google.com with SMTP id a11so5804997qen.33 for ; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:22:47 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:mime-version:content-type:subject:date:in-reply-to :to:references:message-id:x-mailer:x-gm-message-state; bh=5l9nzY7kQ8Oab3RuN4c/Cd1cYonXROImC/us26yhk9w=; b=hS0lVCoJ4+sZCkP1zQEhnllXW/5gcCGdmG+3ZQh93UeCAe0hTHJnNLp2lJD6tA7VlH njSmqX632xbGAnKiARyC+C/rS35rM+DE/a2zAU24fZAcqKSz7jjFZfz1n1Z/n2LNMNn/ puNIXnu6wMgt+riGsC+djwL273CYqdM/4u/DHJUEhdRNfXmydf4eepDfV/a2qgPVQHr3 P2BKJcnQ1nWydUEnlNzl4QITUkKNbSuFGbGY9omGWLk41qbYTP+YCbdAVbZXjOWtTNPt tDMcg0v+qDZ9ZL7rottxIqixnQ3BV2E2JGv3l+G2+8+jOFAZN9ZK+Sjx8T9/pB/UDC0g yFNA== X-Received: by 10.49.87.40 with SMTP id u8mr44349058qez.62.1362612167535; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:22:47 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from [10.0.0.117] ([65.223.58.66]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hr1sm50500458qeb.3.2013.03.06.15.22.45 (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:22:46 -0800 (PST) From: Phil Spitler Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_7503A635-2A9F-4FB5-BBBF-B9861ADFD8C7" Subject: Re: [AE] HELP! AE not relinking Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 15:22:50 -0800 In-Reply-To: To: "After Effects Mail List" , References: Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnwSkfzyjkx6o8+s4bf7NOsW4hctoes63ikK31++TzekS7MVjXZH27iBeBBgOzrlbbXbpXv --Apple-Mail=_7503A635-2A9F-4FB5-BBBF-B9861ADFD8C7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 One idea would be to load the project then save it as XML from AE. Then = open that in a text editor and do a search and replace for the fie path. Load the xml back into AE. Hope that helps. Phil Phil Spitler | Creative Technologist | Bonfire Labs | t : = 415.394.8200 m : 415.571.3139 Website | Facebook | LinkedIn On Mar 6, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote: > This is again the monster file from my client from yesterday. They = sent the missing files and an updated project file. The first file they = sent was a collect. I opened the new file which is not a collect =96 it = of course reports all the files missing. I link to the first set and AE = only find the files in that folder =96 does not read the rest of the = files from missing drive. > =20 > What=92s the simplest way to fix this? (we are talking thousands of = folders) If they redo the collect on their end with collect source files = set to none =96 I don=92t think it will relink. I=92m brain dead from = lack of sleep and hoping there is an obvious solution as it take 90 = minutes to open the damn project. > =20 > stephen van vuuren > 336.202.4777 > =20 > http://www.insaturnsrings.com/ > http://www.sv2dcp.com/ > http://www.sv2studios.com/ > =20 > A film is =96 or should be =96 more like music than like fiction. It = should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what=92s = behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. > =96Stanley Kubrick > =20 --Apple-Mail=_7503A635-2A9F-4FB5-BBBF-B9861ADFD8C7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 One idea would be to load the project then save it = as XML from AE. Then open that in a text editor and do a search and = replace for the fie path.

Load the xml back into = AE.

Hope that = helps.

Phil


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On Mar 6, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Stephen van Vuuren = wrote:

This is again the monster file = from my client from yesterday. They sent the missing files and an = updated project file. The first file they sent was a collect. I opened = the new file which is not a collect =96 it of course reports all the = files missing. I link to the first set and AE only find the files in = that folder =96 does not read the rest of the files from missing = drive.
 
What=92s the = simplest way to fix this? (we are talking thousands of folders) If they = redo the collect on their end with collect source files set to none =96 = I don=92t think it will relink. I=92m brain dead from lack of sleep and = hoping there is an obvious solution as it take 90 minutes to open the = damn project.
 
stephen van vuuren
336.202.4777

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