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External G-raid problem
I have been editing off external 1.5TB G-raid drives for about 2 months now. I have my system settings set so that all my autosave files go on the external drive. Everything was working fine until today. When I opened FCP, I get this window that says “Unable to set scratch disk. The selected directory is on write-protected or non-writeable media.”
How did this happen? I clicked on the external drive and open the info, but it does not say that it is locked or write-protected. I have about 600 GB left on the drive, so have no idea why this is not working.
Please help. We are trying to wrap up a feature doc in a few weeks before onlining, so I can’t afford major tech problems.
Thanks.
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4 Replies
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I had similar problems. Trash prefs and see if that helps. My machines were networked are yours?
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When you say networked, there are about 3 different computers were we all can connect each to each other via airport, so if that is what you are talking about yes, we are networked in that way.
But we are not like on an X-san.
Do I have to trash all the preferences to all the computers that have FCP? Do I trash the whole preference folder for FCP or the subfolders in there? Let me know.
Thanks for the quick answer.
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We are having a similar problem with a GRaid2 drive on one of our systems. Are you by chance on Tiger?
The only way to correct the problem that we have found is a reboot. Seems to work fine after that, but is annoying for the editor for obvious reasons.
For us, when this happens we can’t even create a new folder from Finder. Is this the same with you?
-Todd Beabout
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If trashing prefs and repairing permissions doesn’t do the trick, try Disk Warrior.
John
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