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Project.db not being detected by Project Manager

PostPosted: Fri Apr 23, 2021 5:24 pm
by Kleric
Recently, a project I've been working on for about a month has stopped appearing in the Project Manager of Davinci Resolve. I do not have any Backup .drp files of it (I'm starting to learn how important it is to make those often), but I do still have the Project.db file, which I found here:

C:\Users\Luke\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Resolve Disk Database\Resolve Projects\Users\guest\Projects

After researching for a bit, it seems likely that the Project.db file is corrupted somehow, but also that there is also hope in fixing it, if someone were to dig around in the file.

Is there anyone here able and willing to do that? Or could I be pointed in the right direction to someone who can or how I could do it myself?
Or maybe even some other solutions that slipped past me to try?

The file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R30Rf4 ... sp=sharing

Re: Project.db not being detected by Project Manager

PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2021 8:51 pm
by Kleric
I guess I'll start working on putting everything back together again instead.
This sucks.

Re: Project.db not being detected by Project Manager

PostPosted: Mon Apr 26, 2021 2:05 pm
by Jim Simon
I once had to redo a class project from scratch four times over because someone from another class kept deleting my work.

It's never fun. :cry:

Re: Project.db not being detected by Project Manager

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 12:57 am
by ashire
I just had the same thing happen after a hard crash.

I was working on a Resolve 17.1.1 project running on Windows and the computer crashed during an edit. I had autosave turned on, but not project backups (silly me, this was a new Windows/Resolve 17 install and just missed that setting).

After the computer restarted, hard crash, I opened Resolve and the project I was working on no longer exists in the project manager. I checked the project's DB location and file structure and it was intact. I then exported the logs and saw the infamous:
"Failed to initialize database"
&
"Project.db @ db17: database disk image is malformed Unable to execute statement"

The "Project.db" file is pretty small'ish about 10MB. Its not a massive project, but it was about a day's worth of work.

I'm guessing this means I'm screwed, eh?

Well, I guess I'm working the weekend now to get these edits out to the directors... ugh!

WeTransfer link of Project.db file & Logs: https://we.tl/t-XP8VYl80fS