MLT Files Are Getting Corrupted & Says Files Are Missing When They Are Not

[kagsundaram]

@DRM

If anyone else also experiences it

Thank you @DRM for posting this as a bug. I have been hesitant to do so, because (1) it does not effect me directly (2) I haven’t personally experienced it, and (3) seniority and stature that I haven’t earned yet in this venue.

What I have been doing is tracking it and seeing the pattern emerge,
@DRM, you are the fourth (or more likely the 5th; one unconfirmed.) to report this problem here. Multiply that by the ratio of field experiences by users to those who make reports…

Commonality: The file named “blank”.

@kagsundaram

Once is happenstance.
Twice is coincidence.
Three times is…

I have searched the forum.
No one has been asking for help with a missing file named “blank” until about two weeks ago.

Now there are at least three such cases.

(There was a fourth that I suspect is the same, four days ago, but the question “was it named blank” was never answered.
A fifth suspected case was eliminated; the file had a different name.)

@kagsundaram

There has been a mysterious “…some sequence of user actions…” that has been causing these tiny artifacts.

But it seems implausible that suddenly this month many Shotcut users all simultaneously began micro-adjusting tracks, which no one had ever done before.

It looks more and more like something changed several weeks ago, perhaps on or about the 29th of January, that is causing Shotcut to handle these micro-adjustments differently.

And now, thanks to the careful observation and reporting by @alanclarkeau, we may have a way to reproduce it.

(Those posts contain the links to the other cases reported on Forum.)