This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Project and media not reading off ext Hard drive

Sunday, November 11, 2012

[Avid-L2] Re: Project and media not reading off ext Hard drive

Thanks for the feedback guys. I use Macdrive all the time, but only really within my own PC system and I've never had any problems. But this is the first time that I have used it to consolidate files to a Mac formatted drive to be used on another system - so your explanation does make some sense.
However, the smaller USB drive was also Mac formatted and that worked fine - so I am wondering if it was some combination of MacDrive, eSata and Lacie 3Tb chipset?
I agree though that the safest suggestion is to consolidate to an NTFS drive and then copy on the desktop.

Thanks again.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Nick" <nick@...> wrote:
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> OK Here is a weird one!
> I am doing a project that I need to share with another editor in another location. I'm working on MC6.5 on PC and using the clients Mac formatted Lacie 3Tb drive connected through eSata and MacDrive to my PC running Windows 7.
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> All seems to be running fine. The media is all AMA'd and the project is saved to the 3Tb drive. At the end of the session I transcode all the media from the edits onto the 3Tb drive, backup my project to the C Drive and send the 3Tb drive off to the other editor.
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> Then the trouble starts! He is running MC 6.0.3 on a Mac. The 3Tb drive boots up OK but the Avid project won't open. I email him my backed up copy of the project and that opens fine but none of the media is linked and the Mac isn't seeing the Media on the 3Tb. Ok, trash the databases and rebuild except Avid then wants to quarantine all of the MXF mediafiles.
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> Client brings drive back to me on PC 6.5. I now can't open project saved on 3Tb drive either. Open backup project OK - rebuild databases - a couple of audio files are quarantined but otherwise it's all OK.
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> Now I reconsolidate all media off 3Tb drive on to another 500Gb USB drive and copy Project.
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> Back to other editor and this works fine! What the heck!!! Anyone got any ideas about what was going on there? I verified the 3Tb drive on my Mac laptop and it said it was perfect, but I can only think that there was some weird Mac/PC file structure mismatch thing going on which I have never come across before.
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