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Mac Drives on PC brings DVDA to a hault
I use both Mac and PC’s for my work and as such utilize Mac formatted drives for all. MacDrive is a great utility that allows reading and writing to those without a hitch from my PC’S. Recently I needed to use DVDA to burn a few DVD’S whose source files resided on the Mac drives. DVDA hung the moment the “MAKE DVD” was selected. The Task Manager did not show any CPU usage to speak of and everything seemed normal except the program would not respond.
After reinstalls and doing all the normal things I would try to find the source I decided to use my laptop instead and copied the source file to it. No problems. I went back the the Desktop PC and copied the source file from the Mac drive to the PC. Still hung up….
After a few hours I unplugged the Mac Drive and voila!!! Back to normal. Why it caused the problems when it was no longer the source of the DVD files I have no idea but I thought I would share this headache for those of you who may ever come across it. As long as that drive was connected DVDA would not burn any DVD’S but everything else worked fine…go figure.There is always something to make us work harder….
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Have you reported this to Sony? I assume that DVD Architect enumerates all of the drives looking for DVD burners and perhaps there is something about MacDrive that causes this problem. I would definitely let Sony know to see if they can fix the problem.
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No John I have not reported it as of yet. I’ve never seen it reported anywhere and thought it was one of those rare oddities. Certainly I will report it to Sony to add to the list but I suspect there will not be a whole lot of thought and resources dedicated to it. With two PC’S and a dual boot Mac my only solution was to use Mac formatted drives. I do wonder what other people are doing that have a similar situation. I’ll send them a report…thanks.
Some years ago I found a bug with Vegas 5 when importing a disc from a Sony camcorder. It created ridiculously long file names that would crash every time. Took a while to figure that one out. Both Sony products…hmmm…
It has become a norm these days to figure work arounds.
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