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Permissions Problem P2 to Mac – MobileMe culprit?
I’ve been having a real problem of getting p2 footage (shot AVC-Intra/24p with the HPX-3000) off of the P2 cards and on to my computer (MacPro Intel). I believe the root of the problem is a “disk permissions” issue that has come up since I did the “Software Update” on my mac over the weekend. I have since re-installed all the drivers and P2CMS from the Panasonic website, but each time I try to copy the footage onto my hard disk (any of them – including an XServe Raid) the file transfer process freezes after about 30 seconds or so and I have to do a manual shutdown. Early on I was getting messages “you do not have permission to transfer some of the files”, but now I don’t even get that message and the whole process just stops with the endless spinning ball. The P2 files are not corrupted (the footage all plays out fine on the camera) – I just can’t figure out a way of getting the material off the cards and into my computer. I am using the Panasonic PCD-20 (five card slot drive), hooked up via firewire directly to my MacPro. I have all the most recent drivers, etc… installed. I have a feeling this is all related to the Apple MobileMe update, etc.. with the update having created some issue with the account settings, disks, etc…
Any help would be appreciated as I need to get the info off the P2 cards so I can shoot again.
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As soon as you said “permissions” I wondered if you’ve tried repairing disk permissions with Disk Utility.
(with the P2 cards UNMOUNTED just to be on the safe side)
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Thanks. I’ve performed all the usual things like “repair permissions” but it doesn’t help. There just seems to be a problem with the computer allowing certain MXF files to be copied over.
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Is the copy protection flipped on the card? it should be on (so the little orange section shows).
I know you said you did, but you installed the drivers for the PCD20, correct? Should be version 2.1
Jeremy
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Yes – did all of that. I feel the issue lies in the read/write permission on my hard drives yet they all have the “read/write” OK. Other thing could be the new version of QT or something about the Apple Update which has made it impossible to copy over the files? I have tried all the ways of copying them – using the P2CMS application and then also just dragging and dropping. Same problem both ways.
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Hmm, that’s weird. can you sign out of mobileme and see if that fixes it?
Also, use a disk (not the Xserve) and get info on it, then change the permissions to ingore ownership on the drive and choose to Apply to enclosed items.
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I did those steps and it turned into a disaster. After rebooting the internal drives are locked and I can’t open them. When I go to ‘get info” the permissions are all at “custom” and there seems to be no way to highlight any of the options like “read/write”, “read only”, etc… any idea of how to unlock a locked drive when you can’t access it through this method? Thanks for the help even though it turned out bad – there seems to be some weird stuff that happened after that 10.5.4 update, mobileme & QT update… If you have any ideas let me know.
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OK. You shoud do this to your external drive, not your boot drive.
There’s a little lock in the get info window tht should allow access and uncheck ignore ownership.
Repair permissions on your boot drive.
We’ll start there.
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Yeah – did all that – lock doesn’t change anything. I’m just going to back-up my Main Drive, do an erase and install and see if that fixes it.
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Email me right now before that.
editstation at gmail dot com.
Jeremy
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Doug did you solve your problem? Do you know what caused it?
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