Re: [Avid-L2] Avid Boot Up Error

I've had this happen on a MBP. Would just hang when initing the Media Volume
blah blah....switching off wifi fixed it for me. One more for the
troubleshooting db.

Best
raj

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Steve Hullfish
<steve4lists@veralith.com>wrote:

> **
>
>
> He wasn't really on a network.
>
> I actually figured this out for Zach eventually. I never saw his computer
> set up, but I was guessing it was an invalid character in a file name. In
> the end, it was even simpler - and worse - than that. The solution was that
> he had named his internal drive "Applications" and his "media" drive
> something like "Media/Stuff." The SLASH MARK in the name of the drive was
> what was causing the syntax error. If I had seen the drive name on his
> desktop, I would have been able to figure it out immediately. What I DON'T
> understand is that he claimed that he'd disconnected the offending drive at
> one point (per my suggestion) to see if it would launch properly and it
> didn't. So either he didn't disconnect it, or, even disconnected, somehow
> the file name was still in the system somehow and was causing the issue -
> maybe since it was assigned as the media "scratch disk" the Avid was looking
> for it? But I'd assume if a drive is disconnected the Avid would just move
> on. One way or another, as soon as he changed the name to "MEDIA" instead of
> "media/stuff" MC could get past that AMA error.
>
>
> Steve Hullfish
> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
>
> On Sep 23, 2011, at 7:10 AM, Raj Rodrigues wrote:
>
> > Disconnect the network.
>
>
>

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