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Won’t transfer onto scratch disk!
My scratch disk is my WD Passport Elite. It’s worked very well with FCP until yesterday, when it suddenly would not transfer (use P2 cards with card reader; same thing when trying to transfer directly from cam). It would transfer when I reset the scratch disk to another external drive or the iMac’s drive, just no longer mine. I’m thinking of calling WD support, but I figured someone here might be a better source of info.
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How Full is the drive?
What format is the drive?There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Drive is only 11% full (320GB version). It’s formatted NTFS. I’ve only used it on a Mac.
I’m wondering if it’s possible for these to overheat? It felt very hot when it started malfunctioning (supposed to work up to 95F, but don’t think it was THAT hot). However, other saved projects continue to work.
I successfully transferred about 15 min prior to the start of the problem.
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[Darcy Wallace] “It’s formatted NTFS”
And that would be the problem. NTFS is a windows format. A mac by itself can read files and copy then off of a NTFS drive but it CANNOT wright a file onto a NTFS drive. There are 3rd party programs that will allow a mac to wright a file to a NTFS drive, but a mac alone cannot do it.
Did you install some software that gave you the ability to wright files to a NTFS drive? If you did perhaps there is something wrong with that software.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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What is more amazing is that “the HD have been working until yesterday”.
I thought a Mac it wouldn’t even recognize a NTFS HD.
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The packaging for the HD actually says it is compatible for both Mac and PC. I will look further tomorrow when I get back to work.
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perhaps you were running a trial version of NTFS for mac software and the trial ran out?
If you are not going to mount this drive on a PC and write to it from the PC, copy your files somewhere and format it Mac OS Extended
If it is being used between 2 platforms purchase either MacDrive on the PC (from Media4)
or NTFS for mac (from paragon)Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
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The Mac can read from an NTFS formatted drive with no problem,and has been able to for a while. However as has been noted, it cannot write to an NTFS drive. I did not know there was software that allowed this, great thing to learn. Neat what you can learn. I use MacDrive on my PC, and it can read and write to MAC drives from my PC.
Steven Gladstone
https://www.gladstonefilms.com
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