TE projects has incorrect references

[tenbar]

A few months back I created a toaster edit project and all of the components (video, audio, stills) were on a video drive called M: - I've added new hardware to my system and that particular video drive is now labeled P: (I really hate Windows, but that's another thread...). When I open the toaster edit project, it (expectedly) can't find any of the components that make up the project. It just puts up placeholders for the missing stuff. Anyone know of a way I can fix this?

If there aren't any other suggestions, I'll just rearrange drive letters using PartitionMagic, but that is always a tricky proposition....

Thank you in advance for any suggestions....

-=b=-

[Jim Capillo]

You have to <ALT> drag all your clips from the new drive and set them on the corresponding clips in the timeline. This is "inherit". You should then have your project complete, but make sure you re-save it with the new parameters or you'll lose everything !

[tenbar]

Ah.... I kept trying to use the 'i' key (that's whats in the docs).... Thanks!

[mgrusin]

If you have a hex editor and are very brave, you may be able to edit the toasteredit project file and change any path references you see from M: to P: (I briefly looked at the format once, and although much of it is in binary, the paths do seem to be in ASCII). Please create a backup copy, and I've never tried this myself so it's not guaranteed to work at all etc.

I seem to recall windows utilities which can change drive letters? (PartitionMagic?) There may even be this option somewhere deep in windows' own configuration panels, something like "force this drive to have this drive letter"? (but that may have been back in Win98 powertoys...)

It looks like T3 will have a "spreadsheet" view which should make this easier in the future.

Good luck! -MG

[Jim Capillo]

As Paul has pointed out elsewhere, in W2k and XP you can change drive letter assignment.....

[tenbar]

Thanks for all the suggestions. Editing the binary was always a possibility (I'm a bit-slinger from way back - embarrased to say how far back - and the paths aren't encoded, so changing them would be easy). However, I ended up using the Win2K administration tool and changed the drive letters.

Thanks again....

[Paul Lara]

It sure would be nice if Win2k appended any new hardware with a new assignment, instead of changing what's already there, huh? :p

[tenbar]

Don't get me started with MS Windows. The ***ONLY*** reason I use Windows is because the T isn't available on a superior OS (like Linux - hint, hint) But, I don't want to start a Windows bashing thread or an OS war thread. That's the last I'll say on this subject....