PE files "lost": What after new hard drive and re-installed OS?

Question

Recently, Dell and I did a serious back-up of my files before getting a new hard drive and a re-installation of the OS.

Now, my computer is running well. Yet, all of my numerous Premier Elements' files have all the clips saying "Media Pending" or "Media Offlines"

These are originals or numerous works-in-progress.

Except for completed works that I made Vimeo, YouTube, DVDs or MPEGs,

most of my work since 2011 is "lost" because I don't have the ummph

to back to all my external drives and find the original clips, one by one.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Considering a few light years meditation retreat on Andromeda.

Bill Sprague · Answer

The actual media is never "in" a project in any video editing system. They all establish reference links to where the the clips and other assets are. The references included the "long file name" with the drive letter and all the folders.

What to do?

From your backups, put the assets where they used to be.

Or, if you know where they are you can re-link them to new locations. If they are grouped in the same folder, you only have to re-link one. PrE helps by offering some guides to the linking process when a link is broken.

To show an example of the process I have to break and re-link some files. If you don't see how to do that, I'll try to post some screen shots.

Bill

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