Pre Pro Scratch disk write protected or unavailable????

[Nate Tam]

Hey all

THIS IS A FIX! – YAY!

Or at least it worked with me. It’s easier than you’d think.

UNPLUG YOUR DRIVE.
Turn it off.
Plug it back in.
Open project (hopefully with this error gone)
Make media offline
Relink media.
BE HAPPY.

OUT….hopefully.

Nate Tam
Freelance Film Editor
natetamiam.com

[Daniel Moriarty]

Killed it Thomas. Made an account just to say THANK YOU!

[Geoffrey Kartes]

Removing the “/” from the file name worked for me too. Since my scratch disks were unavailable it also caused the infamous “Error compiling movie: Unknown Error” message when trying to render or export. (Which I spent hours trying to fix). Stupid me for leaving a forward slash in the file name in the first place I guess. Thanks for the solution!

[Zakhar Nossov]

Seems like the problem was in “/” symbol in the name of project.

[David Jackel]

Thank you!

[Danni Karanja]

Thanks Thomas Trudzinski! Once again the creative cow community has come to the rescue!

Cheers Bro!

[Anthony Hight]

You are the man!! Thank you! I was panicking!

[Preston Alexander]

You just saved me a world of hurt…I wish I could just give you a million bucks in thanks (unfortunately I’m broke…but at least you know my feelings for your wonderful fix to my problem). BTW, I’m running PR 5.5 on a PC windows 7.

Preston

[Mendez Dice]

CHECK YOUR FILE NAME – IF OU SAVED IT WITH ANY STRANGE CHARACTERS EG / + = * ^% etc THEN IT WILL HAVE SCRATCH DISK ERROR AND THEN YOU WILL GET THE ABOVE MESSAGE. DELETE THAT CHARACTER FROM YOUR FILE NAME. IT WILL FIX AUTOMATICALLY (IF THIS IS THE CAUSE) THANK YOU SO MUCH SETH GOLDIN!!!! LIFE SAVER.

[Kell Smith]

Wish I could give this +100 –
Thank you! SOLVED!