Re: [Avid-L2] Restart Attic - SOLVED

If your projects are on an ISIS/Unity workspace, you automatically get a 'Unity Attic' on that workspace. One day, someone who buys an ISIS will ask what the hell Unity is!

On 13 Jul 2013, at 17:45, Frank Felker wrote:

> 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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> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > 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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