Best location for job / Sessions folder in macOS?
I was recently told that the best location was in the public folder, as it gives the most access to macOS.
Is the true, or is there a better place?
Thanks!!
Is the true, or is there a better place?
Thanks!!
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I have no idea! It rather depends on who you want to be able to access it. I keep mine in the Pictures folder.
Ian0 -
I consider the best place to be on an attached external drive. This way you don't fill up your primary drive, and any updates to your OS which you may have to undo, will make it just a bit safer for your photos. It's all portable that way between computers and much easier to back up efficiently.
You can set the whole drive to "ignore permissions" or simply set any folder up with which ever permissions work best for you.0 -
to add a. bit more to this, you can do all of this command line, but it's also much easier for one or two folders to do it with the "get info" contextual menu. Simply select a folder anywhere (except the root system folder!) you would like, right click and select "get info". At the bottom you will see the "sharing & permissions" box.
This allows you to set things as you would like best. One bit of advice is to NOT use the public folder. I believe that by default ( I change my defaults years ago and am not certain what they were) it is a drop box. That means that a user other. than yourself can drop things in, but then they can't go into the folder and see them. For photo sharing that seems to be a poor choice, but perhaps it is how you would like it, I don't know.
My suggestion is to have no general access to your photos folder, but give both read and write permissions to selected users. That preserves security and gives the sort of access that is likely desired to another user. That way also, you can read log your files and see exactly who did what, and when, should the reason arise, to figure out problems. 😊0 -
Pavel wrote:
I consider the best place to be on an attached external drive. .
It makes C1 behave slower this way.0 -
that depends on what you are using to attach the drive. A thunderbolt enclosure and a raid 1+0 array will knock your socks off, speed wise. Even a thunderbolt enclosure and one SSD is so fast that one can't tell the difference between an internal SSD, and much faster than any sort of spin drive. But for sharing with another user, or users, it has many advantages.
Even if you splurge on a internal 4tb SSD, todays cameras fill that up pretty quickly. That upgrade on a MacBook Pro is a mere $3400 dollars over the base 256. The 2Tb internal drive is cheaper, only $1,400 dollars extra, but one can sure buy a lot of external storage, and fast thunderbolt enclosures for $1,400, don't you agree?0 -
I agree with Pavel on having your images on an external drive when shooting, but if you don't have one then the pictures folder works. I don't keep any images on my macbook but move to my Imac as soon as the shoot is done~ 0 -
NN636039366223950463UL wrote:
I was recently told that the best location was in the public folder, as it gives the most access to macOS.
The tip is/was: the Shared Users folder.0 -
duanef1971 wrote:
I agree with Pavel on having your images on an external drive when shooting, but if you don't have one then the pictures folder works. I don't keep any images on my macbook but move to my Imac as soon as the shoot is done~
General advice for tethered shooting: shoot to your internal drive. External drives and tethering are a risky proposition.0
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