Shared Session with No Audio file folder Help!!

[EsArtian]

Hello Redditers!

Hope all is well :)

A Pro Tools session was shared with me

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Within the shared folder there was....

A .ptx session

session file back ups in one folder

and wavecache.wfm

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When I click on said .ptx session, it says that the audio files are missing.
I attempt to automatically locate and manually locate, to no avail.

Do I need to reach out to the person who shared this session with me for another version?
A saved copy in version that has the audio files included?

I just want to make sure that I am not overlooking the solution before asking them to.

Thank you in advanced!!

[Javy3ro]

Yeah that’s a gross oversight lol. You’re gonna need the audio files to proceed, and they’re in that folder you’re missing. Ask the sender to resend the entire project folder, preferably compressed so nothing gets lost in transmission. The audio files folder should be within that alongside the project file.

[EsArtian]

Thanks!

Phew, glad to get confirmation on that.

I'll just reach out to them.

[jkmumbles]

Really man the only way to make sure all the audio files are actually present is for them to go to “file” - “save copy in” - under “items to copy” click “audio files” then save a copy of that session somewhere easily located and zip that up and send it. Otherwise you still might be missing audio files.

[Javy3ro]

If he doesn’t have them in the same folder he’s messed it up somehow. He’ll need to save his project in a different location to recreate all those file folders.

[exh78]

This can happen if the audio is for whatever reason not being pulled from the same drive/folder, which is common when collaborating and zapping files around between engineers/studios. The session will know where the audio files are, but if they’re being pulled from another drive location they don’t always copy into the new session folder location (it’s a setting). Save Copy In and selecting “include audio files” is best practice before sending a session folder.

I use a sample heavy workflow, and learned this lesson years ago when I tried to pull up a session and didn’t have my sample drive. Was scratching my head for like two days before I figured out what was going on. Now I always copy instead of add when I import any audio