My specific concern was inexperienced users chucking media on to drives or partitions that they are not supposed to be using. For instance, in a newsroom, there is often a Unity workspace designated for shared projects, not media. Your idea would not work as the Avid system would simply create a new MediaFiles folder.
On 10 Jun 2012, at 03:03, Steve Apter wrote:
> I always just add the project name to the end of the Avid Media Files folder when I want to keep it separate. This disables the folder from further writing.
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> On Jun 8, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Roger wrote:
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>> Not that it helps, but I've had this lodged as a feature request for years - the ability to select any drive or Unity workspace in Media Creation and lock it out for media. Most be doable . . .
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>> On 7 Jun 2012, at 17:03, Bruce Tovsky wrote:
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>>> i think you might need the init caps and correct spacing in "Avid MediaFiles" for it to work. this solved the issue for me nicely, as i need several external drives during most sessions. wish avid had a built-in way to exclude drives...
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>>> On Jun 7, 2012, at 11:54 AM, bouke wrote:
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>>>> The easiest way is to create a text document (or any file) and rename it to
>>>> "avidMediaFiles"
>>>> Avid then can no longer access the drive.
>>>> (but then again, nobody can...)
>>>> My trick is to use Iscsi, and just unmount the unwanted drives..
>>>>
>>>> Bouke
>>>>
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>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Tina Hedegaard" <hedegaardforum@me.com>
>>>> To: "Avid Lounge" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 5:48 PM
>>>> Subject: [Avid-L2] How to exclude a drive in Avid
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I work in a postproduction facility, we have AVID, but we don't have an
>>>>>> unity. We have a server, which works as a SAN-server, and then we have
>>>>>> sharepoints with Avid MediaFiles.
>>>>>> We dedicate the sharepoints to each project.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In Avid we type in AllDrives to be able to see our sharepoints.
>>>>>> My question is:
>>>>>> Do any of you know a command to the console in which I can exclude some
>>>>>> drives?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sometimes people forget to set their mediacreation and then it's kind of
>>>>>> mess where the files are.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /Best
>>>>>> Tina Hedegaard
>>>>>>
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>> With best wishes,
>> Roger Shufflebottom
>> +44 7973 543 660
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