Quote And the crazy thing is that if you have partly reconnected some missing files via the popup, PD does not trigger this popup anymore even there are still missing files in your project...!!!

Based on what you've posted, it seems like you may have saved the project at some point after only partially finding some of the missing clips. If so, it should help to go back though the autosaved projects to find the first instance after you moved the clips, or even the last saved version of the project when all clips were intact.

I don't know why you moved the clips from their original locations, but if you could place them all in a single folder now PD should find them all and would only need to prompt you to browse once.

If putting them all in a single folder isn't possible, PD should prompt you for new folders only when it can't find a clip in the original or the newly-set "browse to" folder.

Hello optodata,

first of all thank you for your answer and a happy new year to you!
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Based on what you've posted, it seems like you may have saved the project at some point after only partially finding some of the missing clips. If so, it should help to go back though the autosaved projects to find the first instance after you moved the clips, or even the last saved version of the project when all clips were intact.

--> That was a good advice and helped me so far, great!! :


If putting them all in a single folder isn't possible, PD should prompt you for new folders only when it can't find a clip in the original or the newly-set "browse to" folder.

--> Yes, putting them in a single folder is no option for me because I often work with different file formats (jpeg, different video sources that I organize in different folders) and I even used files from different drives.


As I said, your trick helped me so far but to be honest, I'm once more disappointed by the software again:

1. The popup is not helpful by not showing the whole file path!!!

2. It's a shame that there is no later option to reconnect all missing files!!!

I need to prevent myself from any further frustrations and will give Davinci Resolve a try now.

My list of KNOWN bugs is getting too long now!

But thank you again my friend.

Best wishes,
Robin

P.S.:

Although your advice helped me, I did not mark your post as an answer to let the Administrators have a look over it.
It's just a workaround, and it should be fixed by better options as mentioned...

Cyber-Rob, you can see it's been a issue for a long time, like this prior post, https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/52056.page#post_box_272712 where I posted all the content in this users pds file for that user to help migrate the missing file issue.

I often have multiple camera shoots and many video files with the exact same name so some options listed here are not viable, my workaround was to write a little script to post the used timeline contents in the pds as shown in that link.

Various approaches by all to get around the multitude of items that are never addressed, appears CL would rather rollout a new song or font package.

Jeff

Hello JL_JL,

thank you so much for your post my dear!!

For one thing, I can see that I'm not the only one having trouble with it.
For another thing, it is good to know that I can just drag & drop the PDS file into notepadd++ ...that is a big help!!

But it's a shame that CL is really ignoring our trouble for years now!!

...btw, would you like to share your script...?

Best wishes from Munich,
Rob