Hello,

I have recently experienced a total hard drive crash (external fire-wire H/D). I had literally hundreds of multimedia and graphic files stored on this drive, many of which were linked to a VV3 time-line for a lengthy and complex project.
Much to my relief, my local computer repair shop was able to recover the data on the drive. However, as a result of contracting a worm virus, (we think this is the cause of the crash) my fat tables were erased, and the retrieval software used had renamed all of my original files chronologically during recovery. Instead of my files exhibiting their original names (e.g. “seminar video clip1”) they now appear as lettered and numbered file names (i.e. “A001”) – though the file extensions remain correct (.avi, .mpg. etc.).
I know how to do a search for a missing file within Vegas when said file is relocated. Is there a known method to re-link time-line files by properties or attributes (i.e. clip length, file size, etc.)? I suspect manually locating each clip in an hour plus long training video will be a nightmare at best. Can anyone help??

Thanks in advance!!

Steve M