Avid Behaving Badly #27: 2023.3.1 linked media goes offline if relinked to a different folder from the original
I know this title is a little clunky, but I'll explain: UPDATE: Avid 2023.12 mostly fixes this issue! Hooray! But only "mostly." I make a lot of graphics. I keep these graphics in folders based on when each batch was made. 231002 GFX Renders is my latest batch. 230929 GFX Renders is the batch before that. 230928 GFX Renders is the batch before that one. And so on. This workflow was rock solid in Avid 2018. I'd import v1 of the graphics (something you literally cannot do now because go fuck yourself, I guess). Then, when I revised them, I'd delete media, but not the master clip, and batch in the new version. This would update everything in the edit with the new media without me having to edit a single goddamn thing. And if I needed to go back to an earlier version, it was easy to find. But NOW, with avid 2023, I can take this amazingly easy to use and manage workflow, I can sit on a large spike, apparently. Because: (a) you can't import graphics at all (okay, ...