Network path Mac vs Windows

NNN634979385074551241

• 2013年03月03日 19:29

I have a Media Pro file with thousands of pictures in it created on a Mac. It references pictures on the "Images" server, so file paths look like

Images\Photo Collection\photographers\Joe Blow\IMG_5024.JPG

When I open this on a Window 7 machine, all of the photos say "Original media file not available". If I choose one picture, I can go to Find\Reset Paths and fix the path so that it now looks like

L:\Photo Collection\photographers\Joe Blow\IMG_5024.JPG

Now Media Pro knows where to find the picture. But resetting paths on 43,000 pictures would take weeks, and it would destroy the file for the Mac people.

Is there a way to alias Images to L:?

Thanks for any help,
Ken

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  Thomas Günther

  • 2013年03月04日 11:14

  Seems to be a "path terminator" issue:
  Windows uses backslash "" to separate folders in paths, while Mac OS X now uses slashes "/" - former Mac OS versions (<10, aka X) used ":"
  This format is still used in MP, and never has been changed since it was iViewMedia or Expression Media.
  
  The translation is still an issue in heterogenous network environments - not only regarding MP.
  
  What you might try is the following:
  1. Select the catalouge of interest
  2. Select all pictures, using +a
  3. Go to the "Calaogue-Folder" and select "Reset Folder Paths" (I hope it is translated well because I use the german versions of MP and am not sure if it is called the same in the english version).
  4. In this section you can select your network path and they should be "translated" correctly - hopefully 😊
  5. After you're done with this, you should use the other options to trim and update folder hierarchies, and perhaps allowing "Autoupdate" to do further jobs w/o any ado.
  
  
  saludos redondos -
  tom

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  NNN635490768549141355

  • 2014年10月16日 15:31

  But if you do reset the folder path, windows user can't acces it anymore... there should be a feature of translating paths automatically... This would make it very useful in a heterogen network enviroment"

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  James Johnson

  • 2015年03月03日 02:33

  Maybe duplicate the catalog and reset the paths on one copy for the Mac users, and keep the other copy for the use of Windows folks?

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