So, I was editing an AVID project (a cinematography reel) that was mostly imported from QT's, etc. I copied an old AVID project and its dailies folders to the parent directory of the external I was editing on, hoping to use some of it for my current project. When I tried to reopen my reel project, I discovered that the bins were empty and my timeline had nothing in it. (Note: the footage wasn't offline -- there simply was nothing in my timeline.) Now I suspect this problem has something to do with the new folders I imported. I did NOT import a new Avid MediaFiles folder, nor did I click to replace any files. Does anyone know what's going on?

It seems to me that you took a very convoluted route. If you want to move content from one project to another, the best way is to copy the related .avb bins from one project to another.

Hi Larry, 

Thanks for your reply. My concern right now is recovering my project with the reel, not copying files. As I mentioned before, though perhaps not clearly enough, after I copied the other project and dailies folders from my old drive to the new one, the project I had been working on went blank. The sequence is blank and all the bins are empty. I've spoken to some people who suggested that maybe the project was corrupted. Even searching through Avid unity turns up blank bins and sequences. 

Search the help system for attic folder, and double check that You don't have multiple istances of the project in different locations and are opening the wrong one.

luca.mg:

Search the help system for attic folder, and double check that You don't have multiple istances of the project in different locations and are opening the wrong one.

+1

Thanks a bunch, that was actually the problem. I had another project with the same name on my HD locally that I had confused with an empty one on my external.