Beach Ball Blues

[Nicole Haddock]

By any chance is your computer set to sync to an iDisk of any sort? Some of my machines used to sync up automatically and I would notice some system issues. It’s the only other thing I can think of that might be FUBARing the system other than what’s been said here.

Out of curiosity, what happens when you start a new project, and copy/paste all the contents from the buggy one into a fresh project? Could work, I’ve seen crazier things happen!

[Raymond Tuquero]

Colin McQuillan – –

In my experience the external eSata drives haven’t been as reliable as my Internal drives of my MacPro. I have had 3 crash already … (If you are wondering I also have an XRaid in our edit suite, the externals were mainly for AE graphics and FCP renders) The speed on the eSata is 1.5Gbits/s Vs the Sata at 3Gbits/s. I have also noticed when I do color corrections on 1920×1080 footage it runs better with the internal harddrive footage than footage on the External eSata.

But again that is my experience.

-Raymond Tuquero-
Houston Based Freelancer
http://www.rtuqvidere.com

[Brian Berdan]

Hi Nicole,
All syncing had been turned off so that wasn’t it.
And Rafael, perhaps my sentence wasn’t clear, but I moved the project files off to a USB drive, not my media… my tires are nice and firm.
Perhaps I’ll figure it out before I switch to my MacPro on monday.
Thanks

Brian Berdan
migrant filmworker

[Colin Mcquillan]

A single e-Sata disk sure, but the poster was talking about a RAID, not a single disk….

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.