Thanx peeps, I asked her to take it to a studio with protools and have them bounce the instruments down to single files. Hopefully all goes well. I was hired to mix so...

If they don't export the tracks for you OR you can't  load and do that yourself in your own protools session, you will never be able to make heads or tails of those tracks.    

Don't know anything about PT, but I would certainly be asking them to provide something more user friendly than that.

paulo
Don't know anything about PT, but I would certainly be asking them to provide something more user friendly than that.

Anything would be more user-friendly than that...imagine if every clip in a sonar project was exported as a separate file.
 
The mind boggles, especially if this is one of the versions where the fades are kept in a separate folder...

Aside from anything else, have they not sent you a rough mix? Even without getting into the madness of that many files, there should be some kind of guideline version of the song to listen to.

He probably sent you a project and included all the audio on the Playlists which is what Pro Tools calls track lanes.  I'd only load the basic rhythm tracks first and see if you can do a quick 2 track mix and then start bringing in the multiple takes of an instrument and comp them.  Work on getting the comps together and then add plugins and start mixing later.

Myself, I wouldn't touch it at all until they sent me something more sensible. You'd have to be getting movie star  money to just break even on the investment of time a 600+ track discovery session would take.

Not saying you should give them a hard time or anything. But I'd be politely saying "look, this can't be worked with, you need to give it me this other way".
 

Cactus Music
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/newbie-audio-engineering-production-question-zone/921901-editing-acoustic-guitar.html
 
Speaking of this, check out this thread I posted in, I'm about to find out how many Pro Tools folks are around as I just baited a hook! 
This guy is having trouble with simple copy paste and is told Pro Tools doesn't do the zero crossing trick like Sonar does. 

I'll take the bait.  I use both products and there's no reason why you can't work (cut and paste) in either.  One key press in PT11 and I can zoom right in to where I can see a zero crossing and make a cut right on it.  SONAR can hit the closest zero crossing automatically.  But then there are a handful of editing tools that PT has that SONAR doesn't have and there are times when SONAR's zero crossing cuts a smidge ahead or behind where I wanted to split.  But that isn't a problem either if you know how to work your tools.

I once entered  remix contest in which the supplied stems were all mono WAVs, i.e. all the stereo tracks had been split to mono during the export.  The excuse given was that this was the only option in ProTools for exporting all the audio tracks.  I can't believe that this would be true.  If so it's a severe limitation.