I'm sorry. My question/post wasn't very clear. My head was spinning at the time. I spent six hours editing a national show with Justin Timberlake that's running all over the country this weekend, and lost everything. I don't mean to name drop, it's just that OF ALL sessions to lose, it HAD to be THIS one? Luckily, I had finished it and sent it out to everyone. I attempted to open it the next morning, and almost nothing was there.
So, essentially, all the media lost its links. I realize I could go through and re-link all the media, and that's what I imagine I'd have to do in order to re-edit anything. That's not necessarily the point. It's that it happened at all. And the fact that some of the media is now missing. Scared the heck out of me. It also happened with a second session I opened.
I've tracked down the issue - I think. I use a program called Snapper ALL THE TIME. It's invaluable to me. It opens any audio file to a waveform with one click. Then, you can highlight and grab any part of the file and pull it into your editor. It works REALLY well and saves a mountain of time. I'm a very visual editor, so being able to "open" any file and grab three seconds of it is huge for me.
The "problem" with that program, is where it puts the snippet. Most of the time, it imports into my session folder. But I'm wondering now if somehow that process failed, during the editing process. I remember at one point, the program (Snapper) was slowing down, and I opened the preferences and flushed the cache and restarted it. I'm guessing maybe I deleted those snippets prior to Audition saving them. I'm not sure. But I can only guess it's somehow related. I'm presuming then that Audition somehow got confused and everything went haywire. Not sure.
I can't say for sure it was related to that program, but it's the most likely issue. I opened the sesx file with text editor, and there were almost NO files referenced, yet I was using dozens. I'm sorry, I'm at home for the weekend and can't seem to access my Mac at work. I'll post the sesx file Monday.
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