Peachpit Project Files Missing in 10.0.6

This is more of a tip than a problem. If you use the Peachpit 'Final Cut Pro X: Professional Video by Diana Weynand, you may have noticed that some of the projects you should be seeing in the lesson folders are no longer visible in FCPX 10.0.6. They are still in the external drive - you just can't see them any longer.
I contacted Peachpit and they are aware of the problem. They are creating a new disc and will send them out to those who have their book registered with them. I hope they don't mind if I list it here, but you can also directly download the new lesson files at this link:
http://www.peachpit.com/ebookfiles/013277738X

If your problem projects have a "#" in their names this will cause this problem. A solution has recently been posted at: https://discussions.apple.com/message/25175767#25175767
Geoff.

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jakyhot wrote:
when I'm done with my composition, I save it as .aep file. but when I load this file, all I get is a folder named after my project that has all the elements...
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jakyhot wrote:
when I drag it to the timeline I only see the elements stacked without retaining the placement in the timeline, order, replications (if found), keyframes, effects, etc.....
By "it", do you mean the project file, or something else? I can't grasp what you're actually doing.
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That's a recipe for disaster, plain and simple. You'll end up baffled and frustrated, missing all the features AE provides, and that's a shame. You really need to begin at the beginning:
http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/01/getting-started-with-after-eff.html
...and if you happen to have a little extra cash, about as much as the purchase price of a video game, here's something much, much better:
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If I were going to "convert" the Project, I'd gather up all Assets, keeping the folder structure exactly the same. Gather up the Project files (renaming, as is necessary), and furnish all of this to the person doing the conversion. This *should* keep your Asset Links working*. The other option would be to just convert the Project file, but then you will have to manually re-Link every Asset. If one gets lucky, and the Assets are stored in one folder, PP *might* be able to have you locate the first missing Asset, and then automatically locate the rest. I hesitate on this last comment, because you will have converted the Project, so things do not always work 100% the way they would otherwise. I had to do a lot of re-Linking, but I was jumping several versions and from Mac to PC. Still, once the Assets were re-Linked, all has worked perfectly.
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