[Dp Chicago al]

Even wierder. A friend points out that the lastclip.txt files should be unique for each partition. Having successfully copied the two odd partitions (‘cards’) to my external drive this AM, I compared all six cards. All do have unique lastclip.txt files, as they should.

BUT when I just now powered up the P2store, six partitions (NO NAME) show up on my desktop–and when I open lastclip.txt on them they ALL have the same text.

WT…um, heck. I’ll be using the P2 store to copy these partition into a different computer today; that should show whether the problem’s in the P2 store or not.

[Dp Chicago al]

I should clarify…two of my ‘cards’ would not copy successfully via the disk image method, and neither of them seemed to work with a ‘batch copy’ via P2 Genie; in both cases the transfer was aborted and the P2 store quit with an error message: E1-2-3 solid red, E4 blinking red.

Material off those cards imported directly into FCP with no issues. I am now manually copying the cards from the P2Store, one at a time. The first card took an hour though, much longer than yesterday.

‘Al’

[Dp Chicago al]

Hi, Shane. Thanks for your quick reply—and for your indispensable tutorial. But my problem is more complex. I am trying to copy the data to the external drive. It’s just that two of the ‘cards’ on my P2store will not do so. Yet if I import that footage it works fine, so nothing is wrong with the clips themselves.

I am starting fresh this morning and something else is up. I’m doing a straight copy of the ‘cards’ one at a time, and my first one (7.21 GB) has now taken 20 mins and is not even half done. It was MUCH faster yesterday. Nothing has changed that I can see.

Puzzled,

‘Al’