I racked my brains over this error message for days since getting this annoying error message in Sony Vegas Pro 9 out of the blue. I've tagged, rated and named thousands of clips in Media Manager 2.4 over countless hours and lost it all to the nefarious: Could not open ______media library....error.
I worked on permissions for a whole day to no avail. It seems MS SQL server 2005 and Vegas don't cooperate well. Anyway to make a long story short I accidentally found a fix that works on my system and hope it might help someone else out.
I think it's permissions based, but basically I dragged the *.medialib file out to the desktop and the file miraculously opened with all my tags and hard work of naming hours of clip.
The details if you need to try them went like this:
I found a medialib file in my trashbox on my network drive so I tried opening it.
Media mngr returned the error: Can't open network file.
So I opened a working "test.medialib" file. It read it ok.
I closed Vegas.
I deleted the Test.medialib file. (it was a test file only by creating a new library in MM)
Then I dragged the medialib file out of the trashbox to the desktop for convenience. (This was the file with a thousand clips giving me error messages.)
I launched Vegas and got error: Media library missing. (of course, I deleted the test)
I then tried to open my file and it WORKED!
So I made 10 backups immediately. Moved them to my Vegas working directories and opened them there and it worked fine.
Shut the computer down & went to sleep feeling good.
Next day...booted up....error cannot open media library.
Dragged file to desktop and it worked! It opened in MM
Tried it on my laptop and the results were the same. Seems when medialib resides in a subfolder it crashes. It's happy to live on the desktop. At least on my Windows 7 64 bit system. All AMD based chips. It looks like it has something to do with permissions which is very confusing to me when all I really want to do is produce a Video. Hope this helps someone out.
I worked on permissions for a whole day to no avail. It seems MS SQL server 2005 and Vegas don't cooperate well. Anyway to make a long story short I accidentally found a fix that works on my system and hope it might help someone else out.
I think it's permissions based, but basically I dragged the *.medialib file out to the desktop and the file miraculously opened with all my tags and hard work of naming hours of clip.
The details if you need to try them went like this:
I found a medialib file in my trashbox on my network drive so I tried opening it.
Media mngr returned the error: Can't open network file.
So I opened a working "test.medialib" file. It read it ok.
I closed Vegas.
I deleted the Test.medialib file. (it was a test file only by creating a new library in MM)
Then I dragged the medialib file out of the trashbox to the desktop for convenience. (This was the file with a thousand clips giving me error messages.)
I launched Vegas and got error: Media library missing. (of course, I deleted the test)
I then tried to open my file and it WORKED!
So I made 10 backups immediately. Moved them to my Vegas working directories and opened them there and it worked fine.
Shut the computer down & went to sleep feeling good.
Next day...booted up....error cannot open media library.
Dragged file to desktop and it worked! It opened in MM
Tried it on my laptop and the results were the same. Seems when medialib resides in a subfolder it crashes. It's happy to live on the desktop. At least on my Windows 7 64 bit system. All AMD based chips. It looks like it has something to do with permissions which is very confusing to me when all I really want to do is produce a Video. Hope this helps someone out.