It's an intermittent bug of some sort. Avid is supposed to create the Avid MediaFiles folder automatically if not present, assuming the drive actually is valid. (An example of a non-valid drive might be one formatted NTFS connected to a Mac that does not have Paragon installed). This is not just a Mac issue. I have seen it happen on PC's, too. Luckily, in my experience, it occurs rarely.
On Sunday, June 22, 2014, Perrone Ford perroneford@yahoo.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
So last night I fired up MC8 to try to start testing workflow. And I was greeted with the " No Media can be written to any mounted drive. Please check write permissions" error. MC wasn't seeing ANY of my connected drives available to be used. For two hours I scoured the net looking for solutions. I found some info on how to set drive permissions on the root drive. I did this and fortunately, that drive showed up in MC. But nothing else did.
Finally, I found an article that proved to be the silver bullet.
Putting an AVID Mediafiles/MXF/1 folder on all drives solved the issue. Literally just creating it on each drive was enough.
I jumped to MC at version 4. Quickly moved to 5, and bought 6 but never installed it. All of that was on Windows (what we have at the office). At home I am on an iMac. So maybe this is all old hat to your Macintosh folks. Frankly, I feel this was very poor. It was frustrating and totally unnecessary. If the mediafiles folder doesn't appear on a volume, and it's necessary for Avid to have it, then there should be an option to create it, either at install, or during program launch.
I post this here in the hopes that it helps someone else who might need this information.
-Perrone
Posted by: John Pale <pale.edit@gmail.com>
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