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Great Way to Prerp material for backup Windows
Hi Guys…
Ever want to consolidate a set of material for archive, but don’t have another drive hanging around?
Here’s a way to work around it…
Go to your media drive and make a new folder for archive (I’ll use “M:/archive folder” for this example)
Now go to Start Button
Got to RUN and type CMD to open a command prompt…
Choose a drive letter that is not being used by the system (in this example I’ll use Q:)
Type:
subst q: “M:/archive folder”
Now open my computer…
You’ll notice the addition of a new volume for the M Drive (it will have the same label of your media drive not the flder you chose)
this acts as a temporary lettered shortcut to that folder…
Avid will see this as a volume…
now you can go back to avid and consolidate all of aprojects media and material to that new M: volume, essentially moving it all out of your Avid media folder…
when you are done…
go back to the dos prompt and type:
susbst Q: /d
this removes the temp drive letter assignment…
enjoy!!
🙂
Alex
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2 Replies
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It might be a good idea to correct your typos for those who haven’t done this before. Especially when it pertains to command prompts.
Just a suggestion
Bill -
also… the most important should be noted:
the only time Avid should be open is when consolidating. All the other steps Avid should be closed.
Bill
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