![]() Doing so gathers all audio files that are linked to your session from locations other than your audio files folder (like if you didn’t have “copy on import” selected or chose to import tracks by linking to files instead of copying) and copies them into the new session’s audio files folder so that they live in one place. When saving your work to give to another person or to take to another computer, always use either Save Session Copy In or Export Selected Tracks as New Session. Every once in a while, the file IDs become corrupt and ProTools mistakenly can’t use them to locate your audio files. If the files ARE in fact in your audio files folder, but ProTools isn’t recognizing them, you may need to search your audio files folder and relink by file name only instead of file name and ID. There is no need to Save Session Copy In. You may need to choose to relink be file name only if it does not work to use file name and ID. Again, you will need to Save Session Copy In if you would like the files to be saved into your audio files folder where they belong.įind all of the missing files manually, and then drop them into your session’s audio files folder. If you know that the files also live somewhere else on your local computer (such as a library drive), relink to that drive. So, you will then need to “Save Session Copy In” to save a session which does include all audio files. They will only be linked to the session when the drive is plugged in. At that point, any files which were missing will still be missing from your audio files folder. Plug in the drive that contains the files, select that drive in the area to search, and choose find links and then commit links once the files have been found. ![]() Once you see where the files are, you have a few options: Most likely, this will be on another drive or another computer. ![]() This will tell you where the session believes that the files live. Select the files you wish to relink (hopefully, all of them), and check out the path. Always choose “Manually Find & Relink.” Letting your computer automatically do so will take forever. ![]() When you open a session with this issue, a dialogue box will pop up tell you that you have missing files. And as a supervisor, nothing is more annoying to than sitting down to review work and then finding that not everything links up. Problem: My Session Is Missing Audio Files ![]()
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