V5 Explorer - Strangeness

InterceptPoint wrote on 5/17/2006, 1:58 PM
All of the sudden I'm having problems with the Explorer window in Vegas V5. Files and folders that are added to working music and photo file folders are not showing up in the Vegas Explorer window. I know how to hit the refresh button so that's not it. Something is corrupt somewhere.

I have, for example, used Windows Explorer to open up one of my Vegas folders. You can also launch Explorer with a right click from Vegas. Alas the two windows do not show the same thing. This is now happening on 6 separate folders.

The files are on a USB HD.

Re-booting doesn't help.
Re-starting Vegas doesn't help

Is it Vegas?
Is it Microsoft?
Is there a fix?

Any ideas?

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 5/17/2006, 2:06 PM
Can you drag media from the Windows Explorer to the Vegas timeline? have you installed any new programs? Tried a rollback? Antivirus off?
InterceptPoint wrote on 5/17/2006, 2:20 PM
Yes I can drag from Windows Explorer to the timeline and the media shows up in the Media Pool. But not in the Vegas Explorer window.

New programs? No. A plug-in in Internet Explorer a few days ago.

Antivirus? McAfee runs 24/7 but it always has.

No I have not tried a rollback. Not obvious why that would help since Explorer proper seems to be functioning just fine. It is only the Vegas version that is a problem.
Spot|DSE wrote on 5/17/2006, 3:27 PM
Make sure you've got Vegas' explorer set to view all files?
Marco. wrote on 5/17/2006, 3:48 PM
You might also check if under the Windows Services the Terminal Service is running. I sometimes I find my Terminal Service stopped and this makes strange things happen when navigating through some folders in the Vegas Explorer. Restarting the Windows Terminal Service helped. Not sure if this might help in your case too but maybe it's worth considering.

Marco
InterceptPoint wrote on 5/17/2006, 5:06 PM
I tried View All Files but that didn't help. These are just .jpg and .wav files so they show up anyway.

I checked: Terminal Services is running.

I'm almost done with this project so I'm going to just drag and drop from Explorer. When I'm done I will drag all the files into individual new folders, delete the old folders and see if that works. Not willing to do it right now. The deadline is too close to mess with it.
InterceptPoint wrote on 5/18/2006, 8:56 AM
I have found a solution to the strange behavior of Vegas 5 Explorer that is described in the first post - i.e. files added to directories and subdirectories not being visable.

The solution (which I note but cannot explain) is to simply work your way up the directory tree to the drive level (external USB drive in my case) and hit refresh at that level. Back down the tree to the folder with the missing entries and there they are - like magic.

I would add that after this little trick the problem went away - that is new files added to a subdirectory folder are immediately visable with a refresh at the subdirectory level.

Seems like a bug to me but since it has happened to me once in 4 years of editing with Vegas I guess I will forgive Sony this time.