Jack

Thanks for the reply.

To be more specific: when I open my project, all the media on the timeline are "offline".

I need to click on one of the media to see them.

I guess I have disabled by error something on the timeline.

You have either moved or changed a path to the media from the last time Vegas saw it. There are tools in the dialog to help you find it.

There are tools in the dialog to help you find it.

Currently Inane tools. I had to search for every file individually even when they were all in the same folder. The search defaults to my entire computer each time and doesn't remember the search path. There's no way to mass edit paths eg change a drive letter. If you leave files offline there is no obvious way (or I haven't found one) to find the file with out reloading the entire project. The whole process needs a lot more work.

Then you used the tool inefficiently. Once you've found one of the files, don't search again, because you don't need to! Locate that file, and Vegas finds all of the other project media files in the blink of an eye, assuming their relative locations have not changed.

In the Preferences there is a check box for "Close Media Files when not the active application". This is checked by default.

That means when the application is minimized. Just takes them out of RAM. Has nothing to do with orphaned files.

Can you give me the steps for this please because that has not been my experience using any of the search options. Thanks

It's not as complicated as you're making it.
Once you know where the file is, use the second option to locate it. Vegas gives you a popup with the option to load all the missing files.

I've used that option, it still asks me for every file even though they are in the same folder.

Kit,
does that happen when you select 'yes to all' ? VPro 12 working here OK with this.

Yes, but sometimes it works. I've beginning to suspect it has something to do with Vegas 12 not being able to load files that Vegas 11 could. Not being able to open a file cancels the "yes to all". I've also noticed that rather than try and find all the files it can in one folder Vegas will ask again every time it encounters a different file type. So, for example it will find a few wav files, then ask about, say, a png and then go back and ask about more wav files. This is another reason why I previously described it as inane.

Well, when I transfer my projects and media files from my C drive to an external drive in their correct RELATIVE path, it always works. I've never found it "inane". So "sometimes" implies you are doing something else with the files. Best of luck.

Kit, if this was a widespread issue, this Forum would be have a lot more noise about it than there is.

That does NOT mean there isn't a Cross-Version Bug, believe me I have the scars with other issues with this, so you very well may have stumbled on one too.

Leaving a previous version of Vegas on a system, now with VP12, has given people grief. I've just been made aware of a long time user on DVInfo regarding Nesting, and that was having a previous version of Vegas on the PC. Once removed, no problem.

I have to say that previously I have kept and needed to keep previous versions active and this has NOT been an issue. But with "client-spanning-versions" of Vegas versions AND the 32bit<>64bit migration this has been a most confusing nightmare.

So, what am I saying? I guess I'm saying that previously, active multi-Version wasn't an issue, but now with VP12 this COULD be, and that you have stumbled on an apparently illogical bug as a result! Bleedin' difficult to test and present as a BUG, but we have had worse than this - oh yes . . . .

I know that none of this will help you here, but maybe this is one of those occasions that because of the setup you are both correct, it's only the BUG that is providing any form of convergence - yeah?

Nasty . . .

Grazie

It's not clear at all what KIT has been attempting to do.
A) Load media in a project that has been located on a removable drive config that may not be mapped to the OS as it was originally??
B) Loading previous version (of VegasPro) of saved .veg file with variety of media??
C) Loading problematic codecs, and file types ??
D) Loading media that has been moved in relation to where it was stored with last previous saved of .veg project??
E) Some combination(s) of the above?

I had a related experience earlier this week. Vegas 12 reported that it couldn't locate the files, so I pointed to where the first one was, and then got the usual message that it had found the others, but clicking on "Yes to all" brought the message that Vegas had to close, and it did. I tried again several times then gave up and this time allowed Vegas to open with all the missing files offline.

I then went to Project Media, located the first missing file and Right Clicked > Replace, browsed to where the file was, and it duly reappeared and came back online. The trouble was that it was only that single clip, no message that the others had also been located, and I had to repeat the process about 200 times to get my project back.

When I received the "Vegas has to close" message, I sent the report to SCS each time, so hopefully what ever it was can be sorted. The trouble is, I honestly can't remember whether the original project was previously done with V10, V11 or V12.

"It's not clear at all what KIT has been attempting to do."

I agree. The original topic was Media being "Offline". As I replied above this is controlled by the Vegas Preference setting. But this discussion seems to have drifted away from Media being "Offline" to Media being "Missing"; two completely different situations.

Or maybe "misplaced."

FWIW, I had a problem (missing media) some time ago similar to PeterWright's above. Here's the original post and the solution to my problem--a missing plug-in.

wwaag

"I'm in the process of migrating to a new system. Under the old system, I archived projects to a backup drive using the Save As command and then the Copy Media option. No problem re-opening these archived projects with the old system. However, when I attempt to open these projects with the new system, I get the "File not found" dialog. I select the option to specify a new location and then browse to select the file. It responds that the file has been found and I select the option to use that location where all the remaining files are located. Instead of selecting the remaining files, it goes back to the File not Found dialog, which would require the same browse and select file for the entire list of media, which is impractical. Any ideas on what I've done wrong? I'm using V10e.

wwaag

Problem solved (I hope). I had not installed one of the plug-ins (AAV Color Lab). Seems to open archived projects just fine now."

Hi, just to be clear I have an old project created with Vegas 10. The files for the project were all in the same folder and located on my backup drive. I copied the whole folder to a new drive with a different root path (D instead of tE). I made some sub folders for media type (audio, clips, stills) and sorted the files accordingly. I've tried to open the projects both in the new location and also in the back up location. In the backup location the relative paths were all the same (just a different drive letter). In all cases Vegas gives me the dialogue

The following file could not be found in the specified location:

Whichever method I use to find the files Vegas asks the question repeatedly even after pressing Yes to All. After testing I'm convinced the problem is caused by swf files. Vegas 12 is saying it can't find the file because it can't load the file. I need to figure out why Vegas 12 can't deal with swf files on my new system.

I think this is a bug or bad design. Vegas can't load the files but says it can't find them and tricks the user into "looking" for each one it can't load. After finding all the files the project opens but Vegas keeps the old location for the files it can't open so next time the project is opened the whole process repeats. Even if Vegas can't open a file it ought to be able to keep track of the new location. I've wasted several hours on this. I need to get Vegas 12 to open the swf files then presumably Vegas will be able to remember where they are. Does anyone know of what things to check for to get swf to work? I can play swf files in my browser and edit them in Swish. My media player will play them. Thanks,

Kit

Thanks your post helped me identify my problem. I thought it was because I'd moved the location of the project but in reality its because Vegas 12 is not handling swf on my system.