This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Restart Attic

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Restart Attic - SOLVED

I agree it is better to keep the attic and the projects on different
drives. Maybe I will experiment with projects on a different drive and keep
an eye on the attic. Either way, I back up my project folder to a NAS
drive daily.

Frank Felker
On Jul 13, 2013 12:31 PM, "Roger" <rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I'd disagree with that. I have my projects on a partition other than the
> boot partition where the 'Private' and 'Shared' projects normally reside.
> The Atiic is where I'd expect to find it. Also, if you think it through,
> having your projects on a different physical drive to the Attic location
> makes good sense.
>
> On 13 Jul 2013, at 16:35, Frank Felker wrote:
>
> > My projects were listed under "external" and were located in a
> > non-standard place. I moved them to the ...Public Documents / Shared
> > Avid Projects folder and magically, the backup bin copies turned up in
> > the ... Public Documents / Avid Media Composer / Avid Attic folder. So
> > the attic was saving the bins, but they were not displayed until the
> > project was moved.
> >
> > Moral of the story: Keep the projects where Avid likes them.
> >
> > frank felker
> >
> > On 7/12/2013 9:28 AM, Steve Hullfish wrote:
> > > Do you have multiple instances of Avid apps on your computer? I have
> Symphony AND MC 6.0 loaded on some computers and they create separate and
> distinct Avid Attics. One for each app. The simplest thing to do is to do a
> search on "Attic." You can also do a search on any bin name. The bin name
> should come up in the new project AND in the Attic folder. Maybe change
> some of your Bin settings to see if it "wakes up" the attic. I have maximum
> files set to 1000 and maximum versions set to 50.
> > >
> > > On a Mac it's actually easy to see in the Trash can as the maximum
> levels are reached that the Attic is trashing older bins to make room
> > >
> > > Another thing to check is that if anyone else is using your system and
> they have their settings set very low, that will wipe out old versions very
> quickly, because when the Avid sees their Bin Settings, it sees "Oh, I
> should only keep 10 copies." It doesn't look at everyone's settings first
> to see that someone else has it set to 100. Either way, though, it should
> still have the most recent copies of bins, not "remnants."
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > On Jul 12, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Roger <rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > >> No - it will remove the earliest files as new ones are added. If you
> are having a clearout and would like to see a polite Avid message, reduce
> the maximum number of bins in the Bin Setting, save a bin and see what
> happens.
> > >>
> > >> On 12 Jul 2013, at 13:26, Frank Felker wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> That's where I found the remnants of my attic. If I don't have the
> maximum
> > >>> files set high enough, will it just stop saving new bins?
> > >
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> > > Search the official Complete Avid-L archives at:
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
> With best wishes,
> Roger Shufflebottom
> +44 7973 543 660
>
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