Can't load batch containing missing media?

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There’s a thread started about this already. I’m not really following it so I’m not sure what the answer is, but I think it may be a recent bug.

ASCII batches taking long times to load

Hello. We often share ASCII batches to share between remote artists, etc. – rather than archives which bloat and still carry media when you don’t want it to. This has been very efficient for us, and normally when I would load an artist’s ascii batch, it finds the same media that I have locally and everything is fine (or if not I’ll manually connect a clip.) However with a few recent projects, opening a small ASCII batch can take 4-5 minutes. The batches are tiny (maybe 20 nodes, under 10 MB.)…