I'm a 40 year IT pro. I'm also a high-level 28 year power user on the PC and a Linux/apache and MySQL admin. In short, I'm not a novice.
I'm a long time user of version 4 and licensed version 8 in Oct/Nov & installed it. I also upgraded v8 to to build 2.17 in January. In mid February, my primary 500gb HD went down after a power failure that wiped out its bootstrap but left the rest of the drive intact. I bought a 2nd 500gb drive and copied everything from the old drive then reinstalled all my apps on the new drive. The old drive is still sitting here untouched until I'm convinced I've recovered everything from it.
When my drive went down I was working on a video project although I wasn't editing or changing it at the moment of the crash. The primary video files for the project were located on another drive that was unaffected by the crash; but the work files and all the intermediat copies were on the drive that lost its bootstrap. After my recovery and reinstall process for Vegas, Media Manager seems to have lost all of it's sub-definitions of the parts of the video I was working on. I can see the files in the directory on my recovered drive; but Media manager doesn't seem to know they're there. I presume that's because the MSSQL database that held those definitions has not been recovered yet. Since Vegas and Media Manager created those definitions themselves when they were installed, I have NO idea where to go looking for the MSSQL (Microsoft Sequel server) database they created on my has-no-bootstrap but is otherwise undamaged hard drive.
Can someone please advise me how to recover and rebuild that missing MSSQL database? It contains dozens of definitions of clips and subclips of my video that I'd really rather NOT lose! It took dozens of hours to build them... (sigh!)
One more relevant piece of info... Even though I've recovered the data from the crashed drive drive and reinstalled Vegas 8.0a and re-upgraded to 8.0b and have used the Vegas editor (with Media Manager) on new video segments (since the reinstall) to add new clips and subclips to my video, when I restart Vegas now, it gets to the end of the startup process and displays an error window that says "media library Default could not be opened"
In short, even though media manager was there and working a week after the crash and recovery (a full week ago), when I open vegas today the media manager library seems to have gone missing again...
What gives here?? Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks very much!!
I'm a long time user of version 4 and licensed version 8 in Oct/Nov & installed it. I also upgraded v8 to to build 2.17 in January. In mid February, my primary 500gb HD went down after a power failure that wiped out its bootstrap but left the rest of the drive intact. I bought a 2nd 500gb drive and copied everything from the old drive then reinstalled all my apps on the new drive. The old drive is still sitting here untouched until I'm convinced I've recovered everything from it.
When my drive went down I was working on a video project although I wasn't editing or changing it at the moment of the crash. The primary video files for the project were located on another drive that was unaffected by the crash; but the work files and all the intermediat copies were on the drive that lost its bootstrap. After my recovery and reinstall process for Vegas, Media Manager seems to have lost all of it's sub-definitions of the parts of the video I was working on. I can see the files in the directory on my recovered drive; but Media manager doesn't seem to know they're there. I presume that's because the MSSQL database that held those definitions has not been recovered yet. Since Vegas and Media Manager created those definitions themselves when they were installed, I have NO idea where to go looking for the MSSQL (Microsoft Sequel server) database they created on my has-no-bootstrap but is otherwise undamaged hard drive.
Can someone please advise me how to recover and rebuild that missing MSSQL database? It contains dozens of definitions of clips and subclips of my video that I'd really rather NOT lose! It took dozens of hours to build them... (sigh!)
One more relevant piece of info... Even though I've recovered the data from the crashed drive drive and reinstalled Vegas 8.0a and re-upgraded to 8.0b and have used the Vegas editor (with Media Manager) on new video segments (since the reinstall) to add new clips and subclips to my video, when I restart Vegas now, it gets to the end of the startup process and displays an error window that says "media library Default could not be opened"
In short, even though media manager was there and working a week after the crash and recovery (a full week ago), when I open vegas today the media manager library seems to have gone missing again...
What gives here?? Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks very much!!