Re: [Avid-L2] How to exclude a drive in Avid

Your 'solution' is what even the Avid engineers use, Steve, but it is a bodge as I'm sure you appreciate. Allowing selected users access to some workspaces/partitions is something that needs to be addressed properly.


On 10 Jun 2012, at 19:53, Steve Hullfish wrote:

> You are correct. So there are two problems here really. The way to solve the issue of having a Unity workspace reserved exclusively for Avid Projects instead of Avid MEDIA is to FAKE the Avid MediaFiles folder. Create a dummy of it using a texteditor so that the Avid THINKS that there is a MediaFiles folder, because you don't want it to create a NEW one, but to have to be something that CAN'T be written to.
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> THAT solves the problem of accidentally writing media to a drive where you want NO media, but sometimes the real problem is to allow SOME people to read and write media to a specific drive or workspace, but not EVERYONE. I don't have a solution for THAT one, but it's clearly something that would be good. In Unity, I think you can assign permissions. Not so much with shared drives or specific drives on a system other than Unity.
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> Steve Hullfish
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> On Jun 10, 2012, at 5:25 AM, Roger wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > On 10 Jun 2012, at 03:03, Steve Apter wrote:
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> > > 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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With best wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
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