[Jonathan Ellman]

Thanks. That matrix only goes up to Mac OS 10.6.2 I have 10.6.3
Does that mean it doesn’t work on this version?

[Jonathan Ellman]

Thanks, much appreciated

[Jonathan Ellman]

I’m buying a mac off a friend and he’s asked if I want Leopard or Snow Leopard. Could someone please confirm whether or not I can use Avid on Snow Leopard or whether I should stick with Leopard?

[Jonathan Ellman]

I was sent this information by Avid customer help:

This is a bug and has been logged for resaolution. I dont know when that will be right now but in the interim you can get around it by ALWAYS selecting the “Text” tab before the “Script” tab, and the error won’t occur. Also, if you disables AMA, the error won’t occur.

And selecting the “Text” tab works

[Jonathan Ellman]

I think I’ve found the problem from Avid customer care:

“The problem is arises because Snow Leopard no longer allows unqauthorized write-access to the root of your boot volume. If that’s the only volume that you have on your system, you will see that error.

I found a simple solution to the problem, although it breaks Snow Leopard’s security protocol. I changed the permissions on my boot volume to allow full access to my group – which is Administrator. I did this using the following command in the Terminal:

sudo chmod 775 “/Volumes/Macintosh HD”

You will need to replace “Macintosh HD” with whatever you have named your boot volume. If your boot volume name contains a space, the entire path should be wrapped in quoatation marks.”

I’m now using an external drive which works fine. Thanks for your help.

[Jonathan Ellman]

Also, no I don’t have the drives mounted on my desktop. But the computer is brand new and there should be plenty of room.

[Jonathan Ellman]

That’s what I thought a media drive was.

Here’s what seems to be happening. If I import the files direct from the memory card it works up to a point, then it says the media drive is full. That makes sense as the memory card isn’t big enough to store all of Avids information as it converts the quicktime files on the card to videos files.

When I copy the files to a new folder on my desktop, it simply won’t import them at all.

Perhaps I need to set the file I’ve created as the media drive for avid, but I don’t know how to do this and it keeps reverting to the memory card as the media drive.

[Jonathan Ellman]

The total file is about 13 gigs, I’m storing it on the computer’s main drive, they’re on a file on the desktop now.

To be honest I’ve only just heard of a media drive, can you tell me about them?

Also, it keeps telling me that ‘Your target media drive is full’. It won’t let me set this to my mac’s hard drive and it keeps telling me that the drive it’s using is ‘Thai2009’, which I want to delete (and I thought I had) but can’t see how to.

Cheers

[Jonathan Ellman]

Thanks Mathew, but unfortunately it’s still not working.

I deleted all the projects I had and started again today. That seemed to work at first; I imported 10 files from a memory card and it was fine. Then I tried to import more and got the message “The target media drive is full. Select a different target media drive”.

Does this mean the memory card is full? How do I select a different media drive?

[Jonathan Ellman]

Thank you Mathew, unfortunately it’s still not working.

It started to import some files and it seemed good. Then for no apparent reason when I tried to import more it said ‘The target media drive is full. Select a different media drive’.

I was importing directly from a media card, maybe that was full? But I don’t know how to change the drive. I tried copying the files from the card to a file on the desktop and importing from there, but that didn’t help Any ideas?