prevent C: drive writing in MC5

[Neil Patience]

yes there is – in the Media Creation settings you can check filter out launch drive and filter out system drive.
That will stop them from accidentally using the “C” drive

best wishes
Neil
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[Ricky Barrow]

What Neil says is correct, however, I have found this must become a site setting and/or you must check the media creation settings every time you boot the app. Also, this does NOT keep “Audio Suite” renders from going to the C Drive unless you go to something like import and click apply to ALL. This is most aggravating. I am the only editor that consistently keeps media off the C Drive but I check Medai Creation Settings religiously, immediately and every time I open the app. – so my advice is train students to do this as a part of the workflow, else they will find their stuff offline when they come to work here because I delete all media on C Drive without question – it has proven to be the best teacher to our contract editors. 🙂

Ricky

[Ian Campbell]

[Ricky Barrow] “What Neil says is correct, however, I have found this must become a site setting and/or you must check the media creation settings every time you boot the app. Also, this does NOT keep “Audio Suite” renders from going to the C Drive unless you go to something like import and click apply to ALL.”

I do teach them apply all, and that usually takes care of where captured footage goes, but I have seen avid “forget” media creation settings too many times (especially in the import window or titles).

I wonder if there is a preferences file that holds the settings for drives that could be written on boot by a script? Maybe a third party app out there that will keep things straight?

[David Budnetz]

[Ian Campbell] “I wonder if there is a preferences file that holds the settings for drives that could be written on boot by a script? Maybe a third party app out there that will keep things straight?
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You could also create a dummy “Avid MediaFiles” folder by naming a blank document “Avid MediaFiles”, then deleting the extension. I have done this before with fairly positive results. I suppose you could also write a script to delete the mediafiles folder/dummy on shutdown, and writes a new dummy on login.