Problems on Grabbing Stills

[Dwaine Maggart]

By default, Resolve will use the first Media Storage Volume that you have defined in the Resolve Preferences area, as the place to store stills. You can also see the Stills path by looking in the Resolve Config page, on the Settings tab, in the Resolve Working Folders area.

If you have a path defined that Resolve does not have permission to write to, you will see the issue you are reporting.

In Resolve Preferences, you appear to have your system hard drive root path defined as the first Media Storage Volume. You should not do that, as Resolve does not have permission to write to that path.

The best solution is to define a first Media Storage Volume in Resolve Preferences, that the Resolve app does have permission to write to.

Alternatively, on the Config page Setting tab, you can manually change the Gallery Stills path in the Working Folders area, to a path that Resolve can write to.

Dwaine Maggart
Blackmagic Design DaVinci Support

[Cassiano Zoboli]

Thank you very much, Dwaine!!!!

It all worked great!

MacPro Octo 24gb RAM
Nvidia Quadro 4000
GT 120
DaVinci Resolve 8.2.2
Tangent Wave
Decklink SDI

[Fred Ricci]

Vai trabaiá, vagabundo!
( private joke, I unfortunately know this guy 😉

NEHALEM OCTO 2,26
GT 120
GTX 285
8 Giga RAM
SOFT RAID 8 Tera
Wave
Eizo 243 + Hdlink displayport
DAV, COLOR, FINAL CUT AND MEDIA COMP

[Duke Sweden]

4 1/2 years later and still the same problem. Why don’t you just fix it?

[Marc Wielage]

[Duke Sweden] “4 1/2 years later and still the same problem. Why don’t you just fix it?”
You mean, you still haven’t set a default path for your Media Storage in User Prefs?

[Duke Sweden]

I just installed Resolve the day I put up that comment. The problem, according to the first post in this thread, has been going on for 4 1/2 years. But thanks for trying to make me look stupid.

[Marc Wielage]

It’s not a problem if you just fill in the drive path name. I’ve seen it happen on a lot of systems, particularly when you move a session. Just fix the drive/path name in the User Prefs, reboot, and you’re set.

[Duke Sweden]

I already fixed it. While googling to find out what the cause was I came across this post. Just saying why does Resolve still do this after 4 years is all.

[Tero Ahlfors]

Giving Resolve a cache folder it can’t write to is a user problem, not a Resolve problem.