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

Yes (and I'll stop here) but there must be a more elegant solution using Media Creation. A list of volumes with checkboxes - 'Allow Media'/'No Media'.

On 10 Jun 2012, at 23:02, namyrb wrote:

> So if you use the fake folder trick on the projects drive and give read
> only access to the other drives... Then there shouldn't be any real
> problem... And if they get scared by an error message... You tell them
> what's up.
>
> On Sunday, June 10, 2012, Roger wrote:
>
> > Also, the fake folder trick does not hide the partition, it simply throws
> > an error if a user attempts to create media. Fine if you know about it but
> > a bit scary if not.
> >
> > 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
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