Windows 7 and NTFS external Disks
Just sharing some information in case someone else hits a problem with Windows 7 and external disks in the future.
For the most part C1 works nicely with external disks, but it can have difficulty when file permissions at times. In my case I had an external drive that I use when travelling, plugged into a netbook so I can do a few basic things while on the road. When I get home I plug the disk into the big computer and do my final edits.
I recently upgraded my 'big computer' and it has Windows 7 now, which works very nicely with C1. Until you plug the external drive into the machine and discover that C1 wont edit the raw files, it drops into view only mode (with the eye icon). Turns out the Windows 7 on my netbook is setting some ownership permissions on my folders filled with raw files, and those permissions prevent another Windows 7 machine running C1 to play nicely.
This was never an issue under Windows XP. I've even moved my external disks between the netbook and a mac laptop and was able to keep working without any hassles. The problem also wont appear if using Fat32 file systems instead of NTFS. (I like the added security of NTFS disks as they journal changes and cope better with large volumes.)
The solution was simple enough, to open the 'properties' for each folder and uncheck the 'read-only' value or give your Windows 7 account specific 'full access' under the security/permissions tab. Or shuffle all the raw files onto a Fat32 disk instead.
For the most part C1 works nicely with external disks, but it can have difficulty when file permissions at times. In my case I had an external drive that I use when travelling, plugged into a netbook so I can do a few basic things while on the road. When I get home I plug the disk into the big computer and do my final edits.
I recently upgraded my 'big computer' and it has Windows 7 now, which works very nicely with C1. Until you plug the external drive into the machine and discover that C1 wont edit the raw files, it drops into view only mode (with the eye icon). Turns out the Windows 7 on my netbook is setting some ownership permissions on my folders filled with raw files, and those permissions prevent another Windows 7 machine running C1 to play nicely.
This was never an issue under Windows XP. I've even moved my external disks between the netbook and a mac laptop and was able to keep working without any hassles. The problem also wont appear if using Fat32 file systems instead of NTFS. (I like the added security of NTFS disks as they journal changes and cope better with large volumes.)
The solution was simple enough, to open the 'properties' for each folder and uncheck the 'read-only' value or give your Windows 7 account specific 'full access' under the security/permissions tab. Or shuffle all the raw files onto a Fat32 disk instead.
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With my Windows 7 machine I noticed similar issues on a pocket drive that I use as backup. Although I first went the route of changing permissions to solve the issue it was soon clear that this was not a long term solution as the permissions would corrupt or revert when mounting the drive on a different machine. In the long run, I chose to reformat the drive to FAT32 and be done with the permissions nightmare that often plagues Windows Updates. 0 -
We have four machines running Windows 7. Two of them are wedded to copystands where the captures happen, and the other two are used for processing those captures into the client specs. To transfer the data between the Camera machines and the Processing machines we use external drives. Our other option is to go through our network but that opens the data to corruption and is slower anyway. The processor simply gets the drive from the camera operator and takes it to their station to process. We do run into permissions roadblocks sometimes, and our best cure is to put the drive on a machine with admin privileges and -like you said- give full access to "everyone". We're using WD "My Passport" 1TB drives, but also have some LaCie's floating around, if that's of any interest.
This actually gets even more complicated sometimes because on some projects we need to process the data on C1 4.8.2 on an XP Pro machine after it's been shot on a Windows7 running the latest C1. But we've never had a showstopper, only annoyances. Packing as EIP helps but now I'm drifting off topic. Anyway, I find external discs to be very useful in a high production environment, and even though the permissions thing is a hassle sometimes it's worth it. Also, when the external drive is full we shelve it as an archive of the sessions.0
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