Media File Path loops

Hi @ateigen - Can you send a link to jamiec@adobe.com to download your project.  Thank you for your help.

The correct file path in the example above is correct, because I manually relinked it.

I fix the paths as I find them. Things are not going offline, even if the path is represented wrong in the browser. I clean house in some stages of the project, but with thousansds of clips it's hard to catch everything, and I'm not always sure if clips with wrong path late in the project always had that path, or if it's "just happened" resently.

In this thread I was mostly interested to see if there were others that has experienced something like it.

It's an undertaking describing the workflow, but main points for current project:

• Feature documentary project, hundreds of hours video and externatl audio, thousands of clips.
• Proxy workflow. Proxies on separate drive.
• I work on a single workstation, but customer does much of syncing and proxy generating themselves. I copy material to my drives, same file structure, and import their syncing projects into my master project. 

The looping thing is common occurence in other projects - it's annoying, but usually not a big problem. I thought maybe it's my computer.

But I recently was involved in an established project at a major norwegian broadcaster, a series editied on several workstations with centralised storage and proxy workflow. They have a very different setup than my one-man-editing suite, but after fighting a heavy lagged down project, I found that most of their project's media file paths were having this looping path issue. They have a staff of technical support, but hadn't noticed. 

So I was wondering maybe this is more common than I first thought.

Thanks for picking up on the issue. I'll try to find time to describe my workflow in more detail as soon as possible.

The path /Volumes/Havard_transportdisk_Kingston/01 FILMPROSJEKT/VIND/Sounddevices/24Y03M06 does exist, but it does not - and never has - contained the files in question, and certainly not any folders. In the example you can se the path reach the (false) node "VIND", which in reality is the top folder for the project's raw material, and from there it finds it's way to the correct file.

The looping file path is maybe better illustrated with this example I just found in the same project:

The top path is correct. All the other clips should have had the same path as the first. There is no nested folders in the actual file system. So as you see, the path keeps pointing back on itself in the premiere browser. In other instances, like mentioned in the first post, it point to some other seemingly random folder.

I don't know what causes this, or when it happens, but my feeling it is woorkings under the hood, maybe related to automatic relinking, proxy workflows, I dnon't know.

I'm bringing up this question to see if others have noticed the same, and can give me an idea on how to trouble shoot it.

As it doesn't cause a direct error other than making trouble for "reveal in finder" and manual relinking, this issue can often go under the radar for some time.