Project Import Bug

Question

PPCS3, windows, latest patches, etc, etc
Great bug and I used to write software for a living, so I know a good bud when I see one Perfectly repeatable 100% of the time:
Needed to pull together something quickly. Built a new project and imported several old projects to pull assets and some timeline.
So I build project X and import projects A+B+C
Cleaned-up all the un-needed assets and un-used timelines and reorganized everything nice and tidy. Used project manager to blow-away all unused assets.
SO I am left with just X
Burned DVD life is good.
So now I have a finished project X and saved-it-out. Done !
Several weeks later, a guy sees the DVD and wants me to expand the idea and use some of his assets.
OK, dont want to corrupt my finished dvd project [X], so I create a new project and import the final version of the saved dvd project [X] and will add his assets
Basically use final X + new assets to make project Y
Well, upon importing X, I dont get X I get A+B+C ??? in the state prior to using project manager to clean-up
In summary, X is not imported at all, not the final timeline anywhere.. I simple get A+B+C..
I must be crazy, so I close my current project and open the final dvd project [X] and it is in its correct state ---- nice and tidy. I even burn another DVD to make sure the project is not corrupted.
OK, I must have made a mistake, so I go back and create a new project [Y] and import the final state of X and it happens again. I get A+B+C I even try to import auto-saves versions, and still happens.
Now I assume the project bin is managed using a linked-list of pointers, or large pointer array something inside the project file is really screwed-up to cause an import problem like this. Are there history states on the project bin?
Thanks in advance,
Hugh

Answer 1

Update:
See previous post for background.
Well I figure that I may as well work with what I got. My project has only 100 assets, so what the hell, how long could it take me?
I import X (and get A+B+C)
I re-splice A+B+C to Make a new project Y It will cost me a day, but its snowing right now and what the hell
So I re-clean-up and use project manager to blow-away unused assets basically getting a new Y that is an approximation of X
Come back after a break..
Open Y and PP asked for 3 missing assets.. what the hell??? I write down the names, skip them and use the find function to locate the missing assets in the project.not there at all they were purged during the clean-up. Found them on disk and definitely blown-away in project manager starting to see a pattern here..
Not sure of the structure of the project file, but it must be corrupt And what is interesting, it is remembering a previous state of the file I can open the original X and burn a dvd perfectly. But if I import X, it sees a version of the file that has not existed in monthsNow that is cool
Thinking Most [mission critical] software has built-in validity checking you run a stand-alone software on the database (Oracle, Exchange, Quicken, disk i-node tables, whatever) they all have it I wrote some of this stuff in my time. These programs rifle-through the data and use checksums, Hamming codes, etc.. to see if and data is corrupt, and ask you how you want to fix itPP have a function like this? If so, can I use it to fix my corrupt project? If not, it would be a good feature This would save me many hours at this point
Thanks in advance,
Hugh