Re: [Avid-L2] Project won't launch from desktop?

Actually, the '/' you are seeing in Disk Utility is how the computer sees the hard drive. (it is also how it differentiates between the folders).
So don't worry about that.

Just so that you can see this yourself in action.
If you open up the 'Terminal' in the 'Utilities' folder, you can drag and drop a file on to it, and it will print out the location where it is.

As an example, if you had a file on your desktop named 'Filename', and you were the user 'editor' on your machine - the operating system would say the file is located at:

/Users/editor/Desktop/Filename

If this same file were named 'File/name' the OS would think the location was:

/Users/editor/Desktop/File\:name
(see the difference?) the '/' in the file's name has to be 'escaped' in order for the computer to not get confused… and on my machine (OS 10.7 it puts in a ':' instead of the '/')

For some reason, the Avid doesn't do as good a job at 'escaping' names as the operating system does.


We see this all the time when production companies name recordings by date. As in:
05/04/2012
05/05/2012
and then put the recordings inside of those folders.

The Avid HATES that.
and tells you that the file can't be found.

However - after reading this latest issue you have… it sounds more like permissions issues on the hard drive itself…
As an administrator you ought to be able to change the name of your hard drive on your desktop. If you can't - run 'repair permissions' in the Disk Utility.


Jeff

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Jeff Hedberg
Union Editorial
575 Broadway
6th floor
New York, NY 10012

212-863-3030

On May 7, 2012, at 3:50 PM, johnrobmoore wrote:

> Funny you should mention that. I have found twice now when I install 5.5.3 that when the computer restarts as per Avid install norm when it boots back up I can't change the name of the startup drive on the desk top. When I try to change the name I get an error message that reads :
>
> "The name "disk name here" can't be used.
> Try using a name with fewer characters, or no punctuation marks.
>
> I am just typing in something like "Untitled" and I get that error. When I go to disk utility the drive name is listed as "/" no " marks. This sounds like the problem you are describing. Now I didn't type a "/" at all and if I go to startup disk in System Preferences it lists the disk as Untitled but it still reads with the original name I had on the drive. WTF I've repaired permissions and this seems to have happened on an upgraded drive and a clean install on a different drive. When I boot to another startup disk the problem drive name can be changed and it is reflected in disk utility properly but when I boot to the problem drive the naming problem is messed up again and once again in disk Utility the drive name is "/" not the name I see on the desk top. Weird?
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Hedberg <jeff@...> wrote:
> >
> > Every time I hear about:
> > "DISK_DIR_NOT_FOUND,filename:???"
> >
> > I ask the assistants if there are any '/' in ANY of the folders on the way to the files. (or ':'s) That ALWAYS brings that particular message up.
> > Take out the non-standard characters and try again.
> >
> > hope this is helpful in your situation.
> > Jeff
> >
> > ------------------
> > Jeff Hedberg
> > Union Editorial
> > 575 Broadway
> > 6th floor
> > New York, NY 10012
> >
> > 212-863-3030
> >
> > On May 6, 2012, at 2:47 AM, John Moore wrote:
> >
> > > My clean install disk for SNDX 6.0.1.1 works fine so far. I then switched to my clean install disk and installed SNDX 5.5.3. It works but if I drag a file to the desktop like I did with the 6.0.1.1 disk I can't open the project from the desktop. I get an error:
> > >
> > > Exception: DISK_DIR_NOT_FOUND,filename:???
> > >
> > > Funny if I take the project on the desktop and put it into a new untitled folder I can open that. WTF? I have repaired permissions curious but no change. It opens the project fine when it is in a folder on the desktop. This didn't happen on the 6.0.1.1 system and this drive is a carbon copy clone of that drive before any Avid was installed. Curious if others have seen this one.
> > >
> > > John Moore
> > >
> > > Barking Trout Productions
> > >
> > > Studio City, CA
> > >
> > > bigfish@...
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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