When I work with PP 2019 I sore everything on an external drive, we can call it "Nr 1".
Now and then, well every second day, I do a back up copy (just drag and drop the folders I´ve been working in) on another external hard drive, we can call this "ExtraHD".
Tonight the "NR 1"- hard drive broke down. I can't read any data from it.
So
I fetched my "Extra HD"- and found the folders I copied. So I opened a file (from auto-save) in PP. Then I get a message "can't find these files"-message, so I try to locate them in the "ExtraHD"-hard drive. I realize that the files missing all got "Nr 1" in there name- and the files I get from "ExtraHD" has not (as far as I can see).
Then the window for PP opens and I can see the folders etc in the Media Browser, BUT the clips in the Timeline is empty!
If I go back to every bin in the media browser an (re)import the files listed in the bin, I then can right click in at the clip In the timeline and choose: "replace with clip" and then "from bin" and the clip will be filled (sorry don't know the exact term) with the desired photo/video.
My questions:
1. Is there an easier way to get my projects back? (than this "(re)import and right click..."-method)
2. How do I avoid this problem in the future? How shall I store files or copy folders so they are reachable from all hard drives?