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Write-Protected disks?
Hi all,
We have setup multiple accounts on our FCP machine, which has both a one TB internal RAID and a 2TB External RAID. When I go to the other newly created accounts and try to setup FCP for thhe different users, I get an error message saying that FCP needs to verify the scratch disk. When I choose to reset, I get another message saying that the disk I’m trying to set as the scratch is write-protected. This only happens in the new accounts. I have tried using the Prefs from the Main Admin account, but I get the same thing. Does anyone know why this is happening? Thanks for your help in advance.
Gene M. Patrick
DIRECTV
G5 2.7 Dual
8gigs RAM
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It may be something as simple as logging in to your admin. account and then choosing the command “Get Info” (apple – i) after you’ve highlighted each of your media drive icons on the desktop. At the bottom of the window that appears make sure that there’s a check mark in the box for “ignore ownership permissions.” In addition you’ll probably have to make sure all the other dialogue menus in the same window are changed to “read and write”. To change them all, click the disclosure triangle for “Details” and the rest of the read and write menus will come up for the “group” and “others”. Then use the “apply to enclosed items” button so everyone from the other accounts can work with the files contained on each media drive.
– Don
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almost certainly a permissions issue …
if you don’t need to set any user level permissions on you media drive then do as Don suggests, and turn on the “Ignore ownership permissions” for that disk
if you do need to use permissions to limit disk access then create up a scratch disk folder on your media drive first (using and admin login), and then ‘share’ it to all your FCP users by using Get Info (cmd-I) and setting the permissions to Read & Write for owner, group and all (or as required) … then in FCP set up the scratch disk to point to this shared folder -
Thanks guys, gonna give that a try tomorrow. I appreciate the help.
Best regards,
Gene M. Patrick
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