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Chapter 21: File and Session Management and Compatibility 457
Missing Files
A file is missing if it is not found in the same loca-
tion as when the session was last saved.
To open a session with missing files:
1 Open the Pro Tools session. If any files are
missing, Pro Tools posts a Missing Files
warning.
2 Choose one of the following options:
Skip All Ignores all missing files. Missing files ap-
pear offline in the session.
Manually Find and Relink Opens the Relink win-
dow, where you can search, compare, verify, and
relink missing files.
Automatically Find and Relink Searches all Per-
formance volumes for all missing files with match-
ing name, unique file ID, format, and length, and
automatically commits links to missing files where
possible.
3 To exclude any Rendered Elastic Audio files
from the relink process and regenerate them in-
stead, select
Regenerate Missing Rendered
Files Without Searching
.
4 Click OK.
Renamed Audio Files
Renamed audio files are located in the auto-created
Renamed Audio Files folder in the Pro Tools ses-
sion folder. Files can be renamed when you open a
session that references audio file names with in-
compatible characters. Files can also be renamed
in certain situations when saving a copy of a ses-
sion to a Pro Tools version that does not support
long file names
Opening a Session that Contains Audio File
Names with Illegal Characters
Pro Tools 7.x and higher does not support audio
file names that contain the following ASCII char-
acters:
/ (Forward Slash)
\ (Backslash)
: (Colon)
* (Asterisk)
? (Question mark)
“ (Quotation marks)
< (Less-than symbol)
> (Greater-than symbol)
| (vertical line or pipe)
When opening sessions that contain audio file
names with illegal characters, Pro Tools automati-
cally creates a renamed copy of each file that con-
tains illegal characters (replacing these characters
with an underscore “_”). Renamed files are copied
to the Renamed Audio Files folder. The original
files are left intact in the Audio Files folder.
Missing files warning when opening a session
For more information, see “Linking and
Relinking Files” on page 344.