Aaron Duprey
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Thanks, Tom.
Connecting the drive via eSata, firing it up, and then turning on the Cache-A does the trick. However, I’m still not able to move certain directories to LTO Tape. I’ve connected the drive in question to my Mac Pro, and used Get Info on the offending folders. Looks like all users have read/write permissions. I’m in a session today, so I’m not going to get into Terminal tinkering, but I’ll let you know how it goes.
Thanks again.
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Tom, thanks for getting back to me. I actually called the support number a couple of times on the same day that I started this thread, and left a couple of messages.
My initial problem has worked itself out (ejecting and reinserting the tape did the trick).
However, I’ve got a couple of other issues:
External drives only show up in the file manager when connected via USB. Ideally, I’d like to connect using eSata, however none of my eSata drives appear in file manager until I attach them using their USB.
Another issue I’m having is that certain files and folders don’t seem to want to archive. I’ve basically got all of my projects in folders on the RAID tht’s attached to my Mac Pro. When I attempt to archive certain folders, nothing happens. I thought that it might have been happening due to a lack of space on the tape, but this happened today, when using a fresh tape.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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Was that “no” to my initial question, or to my arrived-at Compressor solution?
And something tells me “NO” has got to be at least 5 or 6 syllables in Karenni. 😀
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Think I got it. My QT Refs can still be 720×486. It was a Compressor setting that I was missing (crop to: CUSTOM):
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Just tried creating a new user, and it’s still there. Bummer! Oh well.
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I’m currently running 5.0.4, and it’s been with me since 4.x, if I recall correctly.
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“It’s a network thing. As long as you are all Mac or all Windows the path to the media is the same so Quicktime always sees the referenced files. Crossing platforms breaks the link as each OS has its own way of seeing network volumes. ”
Thanks for this reply. I didn’t realize that the each OS network volumes differently. That’s news to me.
On Monday, I’ll try to set up a Watch Folder on the PC that looks at the public folder on my Mac, but I’ve got a feeling that it probably won’t work. Worth a shot, though. Thanks.
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“if you are giving the PC a file that uses a codec that it does NOT have then the PC an do nothing with it.”
This isn’t what’s going on. Self-contained movies work just fine. Like I said, Squeeze has no problem with Same-as-source Avid quicktimes and Uncompressed QTs. What I’m trying to do is get Squeeze to see REFERENCE movies from my Mac. I’d much rather send a 200K file over the network than a 3GB file…
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I do use Compressor on occasion, mostly for MPEG-2 files that I bring into DVDSP.
However, the vast majority of our compressions are WMVs and FLVs. We’ve got watch folders set up for the particular specifications of each of our clients, and we’re still feeding our PC ‘compression station’ with files from the old PC edit boxes, which we still use.
As far as the workflow goes, it’s always worked well for us — freelancers don’t have to worry about figuring out the compressions — they just drop a file in the appropriate folder. And our AEs and project coordinators do the majority of the interfacing with our clients, and they always know where to look for the latest version of a particular edit.
Anyway, I was just looking for a possible solution based on what we’ve got, without throwing too big a wrench into the existing workflow, and without spending anything more.
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In doing some more searching, it doesn’t sound like it’s possible. I found this thread on Sorenson’s site.
https://www.sorensonmedia.com/forum/?pageID=156
Hopefully it’ll be a feature that gets added at some point.