Appropriate Scratch Disk

[Walter Biscardi]

[David Burns] ” I’ve been trying to transfer them to a WD MyBook 2TB external drive but I think these files are too big for transfer. In the past, when using the log and Transfer window, my files were cut at 4GB. “

Nope, they’re not too big to transfer. Your MyBook is Windows formatted, not Mac Formatted.

Never capture to the main Mac HD System Drive. No matter if it’s a laptop or desktop, you never capture to the main system drive.

There are all manner of ads left and right in this forum of folks who have good solutions for hard drive storage. I run Maxx Digital EVO HD RAIDs. You can probably just run a G-RAID, WiebeTech or Sonnet FW800 solution for your needs. If you search this forum for RAID, Hard Drive, and System you’ll find all sorts of suggestions for drives.

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[David Burns]

Thanks Walter. I’ve seen some of these posts. I’m just so frustrated with the roadblock I’ve been dealing with that I needed to confirm that file size would not be an issue with these other options. I’ll probably go with a G-RAID.

Thanks again.

Dave

[David Roth weiss]

David,

You don’t need a new drive, just use Apple Disk Utility to reformat the drive for the Mac.

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[John Fishback]

Reformatting will wipe your MyBook drive, so if you have data on it, back that up first.

John

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[David Burns]

It’s a new drive and I’ve tried to reformat it. However, I keep getting this response

“Disk Erase Failed – Disk Erase Failed with this error: File system formatter failed”

Dave

[David Roth weiss]

Tell us exactly what you’re doing David, cuz that doesn’t sound like Apple Disk Utility to me.

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[Walter Biscardi]

[David Burns] “It’s a new drive and I’ve tried to reformat it. However, I keep getting this response

“Disk Erase Failed – Disk Erase Failed with this error: File system formatter failed” “

This is why we don’t use MyBooks at all in my shop anymore. I’ve had three different MyBooks do this on 6 different workstations. This is using Apple’s Disc Utility. They fail everytime I try to format them in Mac.

They’ll format in MS-DOS all day long, but not in Mac. I hate those products now.

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[David Burns]

I just bought a 2TB G-RAID, plugged it in and it immediately did what I needed it to.

Thanks for the help guys!

Dave

[Scott Squire]

I found this thread because I’m experiencing the same problem with a WD My Book drive. After reading it I went to Western Digital’s website and found their walkthrough using Apple’s Disk Utility to get the drive to format. See that article here:

https://tinyurl.com/ylc2fx5

It seems to have formatted just fine. Hope it’s all good!

[Wendy Bardsley]

Hello All,
In setting up my computer, didn’t set the capture scratch and it went on the system drive. Now I’ve pointed it to an additional internal drive, where it created a new capture scratch folder. My question is, can I transfer the files in the old capture scratch folder to the new one, in case I ever need them again? Would I ever need them again? Captured the media a couple weeks ago and have already created subclips, done some editing. Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Wendy