Avid MediaFiles MXF folders replaced with Zero Bytes

[JayFrosting]

I want to use Resilio Sync Business to keep myself and my fellow TV editors in sync with the files that Avid MediaComposer creates. When we were using 2.6.4, things generally worked. Since 2.7, we have this problem:

Let's say I and four other people are syncing our Avid MediaFiles folder with a bunch of numbered subfolders, each containing many MXF files. I will transcode a bunch of media into Avid's special MXF format. Sometimes an editor needs it very quickly, so I'll zip it up and use a different service. When that editor gets the .zip file and unpacks it in an MXF subfolder, they will start to see the new media, but over on my side I immediately get an error in Avid that it found invalid MXF files, and ask me if I want to ignore them, quarantine them, abandon them, etc. When I look in the folder, the MXF files that were just there in my local drive are all now showing as Zero Bytes.

I've configured our sync folders to ignore the special Avid database files, hoping that would solve the problem but it hasn't. Please help.

[MattL]

The same happens to me randomly with mp4 files 

I've also had adobe premiere project files over-written with older versions of those projects

I think something is odd with modifcation times and overwriting files. All clients are MacOS, running 2.7.2 

[Mel Matsuoka]

I'm having this issue constantly on macOS with .mov files (Resilio Sync 2.7.2).

I cant even use "Render and Replace" in Premiere, to render .mov files to a Resilio Sync share without it failing because of this.

It's clear that none of Resilio Sync developers read or care about these forums, so I dont expect this to be fixed soon.

I really need to find a stable alternative to Resilio Sync, because i've come to depend on it, especially during this work-from-home quarantine, but it's no longer reliable like it used to be.

[Mel Matsuoka]

On 7/29/2020 at 8:31 AM, JayFrosting said:

I want to use Resilio Sync Business to keep myself and my fellow TV editors in sync with the files that Avid MediaComposer creates. When we were using 2.6.4, things generally worked. Since 2.7, we have this problem:

Let's say I and four other people are syncing our Avid MediaFiles folder with a bunch of numbered subfolders, each containing many MXF files. I will transcode a bunch of media into Avid's special MXF format. Sometimes an editor needs it very quickly, so I'll zip it up and use a different service. When that editor gets the .zip file and unpacks it in an MXF subfolder, they will start to see the new media, but over on my side I immediately get an error in Avid that it found invalid MXF files, and ask me if I want to ignore them, quarantine them, abandon them, etc. When I look in the folder, the MXF files that were just there in my local drive are all now showing as Zero Bytes.

I've configured our sync folders to ignore the special Avid database files, hoping that would solve the problem but it hasn't. Please help.

@JayFrosting Are you (or your colleagues) using macOS or Windows? I'm wondering if this a macOS thing?