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

But if you have projects stored on a Workspace (which many newsrooms do), users need write access for the projects. If they can write, they can put media on there, too, unless the fake folder trick is used.

On 10 Jun 2012, at 22:47, namyrb wrote:

> I believe the official way (at least for unity/Isis) is user groups. I
> believe any networking solution should let you assign permissions to
> specific drives for specific users. So if you don't want inexperienced
> users writing to the media drives you just have them sign into the client
> with the username that has read-only access to the media drives.
>
> On Sunday, June 10, 2012, Axel Jansen wrote:
>
> > or maybe save Media Creation Settings in your Site Settings?
> >
> > Am 10.06.2012 20:54, schrieb Roger:
> > > 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.
> > >>
> > >> 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.
> > >>
> > >> Steve Hullfish
> > >> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> > >> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
> > >>
> > >> On Jun 10, 2012, at 5:25 AM, Roger wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> 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.
> > >>>
> > >>> On 10 Jun 2012, at 03:03, Steve Apter wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> 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
> > > +44 7973 543 660
> > >
> > >
> > >
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With best wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
+44 7973 543 660





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