Disappearing Database

So I followed the 'Lean Color Grading' YouTube tutorial on creating databases and linking them to an external hard drive/jump drive. Everything was working fine. Then one day, I exported one of my timelines to an mp4 file. When I returned a few days later and plugged in my jump drive none of my created databases exist. A timeline from one of the disappeared databases exists on the local database now along with a copy, but I never moved it there. Where are my databases!? Where did they go?

[Dwaine Maggart]

We advise against putting databases on removable drives, to prevent issues like this.

On your jump drive, if there is a Resolve database existing on it, you should see a folder structure like this:

Resolve Projects\Users\guest\Projects

And in the Projects folder should be a folder for each of your projects.

Do you see anything like that?

Yes I do. I went to Resolve Projects/ Users/ Guests/Projects and found a folder named after the second database of mine that I could not find. Is this my lost database? How can I get it to open in DaVinci Resolve?

[Dwaine Maggart]

It could be your lost database, though I'm not sure why it would be there, unless that's the location you picked when you created it.

Does that folder also have a Resolve Projects\Users\guest\Projects folder structure in it?

If so, the easiest thing to do would be to just COPY (not move) the project folders from the Resolve Projects\Users\guest\Projects area of that folder, to the upper Resolve Projects\Users\guest\Projects folder that you CAN see if the Project Manager page.

Or, in the Database area of the Project Manager page, you can click the "New Database" button, and in the New Database window that opens, it's in the Connect tab by default, which is what you want. Enter a new Name for the database, then click in the Location entry area, and in the Finder/Explorer window that opens, select the folder just above the desired Resolve Projects\Users\guest\Projects path. Based on what you describe, that would be the folder with the missing database name.

Just my 2 cents here. Having the function to connect to an existing database under the New Database menu command seems confusing. We’re not creating a new database, we’re attaching to an existing database. A separate menu option should be provided for this.