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Premiere Pro adding additional Hard Drive
Premiere Pro keeps adding a hard drive to the media browser in place of the drive that I specified as my scratch disk. HOw do I keep this from happening and how do I manually map my scratch disks after I create a project?
and I get this when I open a project who’s files were associated with the original drive:
Any ideas?
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IF you are working from a PC it’s plausible that you are getting different naming/Letter associations with the Drive/s which loses the connection to the media/etc.
This usually happens when drives are added or removed and reboots occur.
There is a way to manually assign and effectively lock the drive letter to a drive, but you need to manage the letters so you don’t accidentally assign the same letter acorss multiple drives (only if you are doing this to drives that aren’t all connected at the same time).
I tend to label the drive with the letter so if it somehow takes a different letter, say on another system (which can happen) then I just change the letter on that system and launch the project, bam – all good.
Different story with PC to Mac and back, the OS’ see drives differently Mac don’t use letters, but rather ID’s which is smarter to be honest. 🙂
OK here’s the way to do it:
– Right click on the “Computer” Icon or from the Windows Start Menu and select “Manage”
– On left column select “Disk Management”
– Right click on the Drive you want to assign or alter the Drive letter of and select “Change Drive Letter and Paths…”
– Select “Change…”
– Pick the Drive letter from the drop list and hit OK.Done. 🙂
Cheers JB
Jon Barrie
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Jon,
Great info and will be of help to someone someday. I thought I had put in my system specs but i did not. I am indeed on a mac and Lion no less.
I just returned from a meeting and relaunched Premier Pro and the “Lacie 1” drive is gone and now back to normal. I am just testing this drive out and have not named it according to our nomenclature yet but it is happening not only on the thunderbolt drive but on FW800 drives as well.
It would be nice to have the ability to remap the scratch disks at will.
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This usually happens when you use too many external drives. They come and go at random messing up the numbering system. Temporary numbering confusion.
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