Missing Projects

Opened up Resolve for the first time in several months and all my projects are not shown. It is like a fresh install. I have file backup running, but not sure where things are stored or how to bring back into the project manager.

[Dwaine Maggart]

Send a screen shot of the Resolve Project Manager page, with the Project Libraries area showing.

Send a Resolve diagnostics log generated from the Resolve Help menu. If the file is too large to attach, put it on a file sharing site and provide a link to the file.

Send a screen shot of the Resolve Project Manager page, with the Project Libraries area showing.

Send a Resolve diagnostics log generated from the Resolve Help menu. If the file is too large to attach, put it on a file sharing site and provide a link to the file.

[Dwaine Maggart]

Not exactly what I wanted to see. I wanted to see if you had multiple project libraries.

But since you show the Local Database project library, it appears to have some projects in it.

Your comment was: "It is like a fresh install. " Which would have no projects in it.

So is this the only project library you have, and only some of the expected projects are missing?

If you select "Open File Location" and then navigate to Resolve Projects\Users\guest\Projects, do you see more project folders there, than are shown in the Project Manager window? Or just folders for those 3 projects?

If you only see folders for the projects shown, then that's all there is. I can't explain why any projects would be missing, unless they were explicitly deleted from the Project Manager.

If you see more project folders than projects shown in the Project Manager, then those could be helpful. Zip up a couple of those folders and provide a link to them and we can take a look and see why they might not be shown.

We'll also need a Resolve diagnostics log, which you can generate from the Resolve Help menu.

This helped alot. It looks like a windows update moved them to a "windows.old" folder. Can you tell me how to get these back into Resolve.

[Dwaine Maggart]

Is that where Resolve is currently installed as well? Is that what opened when you selected "Open File Location" ?

If Resolve is not currently installed in this location: C:\Program Files\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve

And if you don't have this folder: C:\ProgramData\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve

And if you don't have this folder: C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve (where user_name is your current Windows user name)

i.e if all the above are in Windows.old, that's a problem. That would imply at some point you did a Windows 10 to Windows 11 update and all the original stuff got put in the Windows.old folder.

Without knowing exactly the state of your system, it's hard to provide precise guidance.

But bottom line, you need to have Resolve in all the locations mentioned above. If they are in Windows.old, then reinstall Resolve, and that should populate all the above.

And then to answer your question, you want to copy all the folders in the Windows.old Projects folder, to the proper Resolve Projects folder, which should be here:

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

Where user_name is your current Windows user name.

Good luck...

Thank you for all the help. All the paths you listed are correct. I am running Win10, but did try to upgrade to 11 but got the message my system couldn't support 11. I guess it started and made the Windows.old.

Anyway, I have copied all project folders to the project manager folder you said and all is working. I do have to approve them to upgrade to 19 when opening, but all is working now. Thank you again.

For future readers of this thread:

This is exactly why I do not use the default project library location. Mac, Windows, doesn't matter.

I have found it a best practice (for me at least), to connect a project library to a dedicated folder on my system that won't be touched by system updates, preferably on a separate internal drive that is not the boot drive.

For every fresh install of Resolve, I disconnect the default library location immediately after reconnecting to my chosen location.

Ah, and also, I manually export my library and REIMPORT that library as a test to make sure it works before any updates, as recommended.



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For future readers of this thread: This is exactly why I do not use the default project library location. Mac, Windows, doesn't matter.

Another potential workaround is to use Resolve Project Server on an external system, and keep all the projects there. Those are isolated and won't be affected by anything you do on your main system running Resolve.

In 15 years of running Resolve on Mac OS, I've never, ever had a system update move, change, or delete any Resolve projects. I have had system drives crash, which would take out the database, but 99.9% of the time I have backups of all the projects (and the project library), which has saved me a few times.

I have seen system updates clobber the Desktop Video driver, but that's a Mac permissions problem which you can overcome with some effort. (And that's not a Resolve Project Library problem per se.)