Ian Hamilton
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Protools and External Harddisk
#709359 - 19/02/09 06:08 PM
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Just switched over to ver 7.4 on a mac, and now I can't open, play or record onto a
external USB drive. Protools forces me to copy session onto an internal drive before
opening, playing or recording. Now it says I could try to modify drive in my workspace to
a play/record drive but this doesn't work.
I've tried three different LaCie
drives of different sizes and heritage and none work. All are read/write access if I
Apple+i them in finder. Two were formatted on a MAC and one on a PC, all are NTFS.
I used to be able to read and record to an external usb drive in ver 6.9 on
PC..
What am I missing?
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Eric Dannewitz
Joined: 27/01/07
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Re: Protools and External Harddisk
[Re: Ian Hamilton]
#709398 - 19/02/09 09:25 PM
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Quote Peter Dakin:
Just switched
over to ver 7.4 on a mac, and now I can't open, play or record onto a external USB drive.
Protools forces me to copy session onto an internal drive before opening, playing or
recording. Now it says I could try to modify drive in my workspace to a play/record drive
but this doesn't work.
I've tried three different LaCie drives of different
sizes and heritage and none work. All are read/write access if I Apple+i them in finder.
Two were formatted on a MAC and one on a PC, all are NTFS.
I used to be able to
read and record to an external usb drive in ver 6.9 on PC..
What am I missing?
NTFS. Macs cannot write to
NTFS drives (well, they can using some third party thingy).
So, to use PT on
the Mac, you need to use a session on a Mac formatted drive.
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Jack Ruston
Joined: 21/12/05
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Re: Protools and External Harddisk
[Re: Ian Hamilton]
#709408 - 19/02/09 10:11 PM
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Yes...This is still the fundamental barrier to cross platform work between mac and pc.
There's nothing worse than going to the session with your hard drive and finding that it
doesn't work. This is the reason that no commercial rooms can run PT on PC's, even though
there's nothing wrong with it whatsoever. It's just too much of a pain when the drives
from every other studio can't be read. J
-------------------- www.jackruston.com
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Ian Hamilton
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Re: Protools and External Harddisk
[Re: Jack Ruston]
#709422 - 19/02/09 11:19 PM
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I lied, actually my new 1T drive is formatted in MS-Dos(fat32) though it is partitioned.
PC didn't have a problem with partitioned drive though..
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Eric Dannewitz
Joined: 27/01/07
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Re: Protools and External Harddisk
[Re: Ian Hamilton]
#709452 - 20/02/09 03:02 AM
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Quote Peter Dakin:
I lied,
actually my new 1T drive is formatted in MS-Dos(fat32) though it is partitioned. PC didn't
have a problem with partitioned drive though..
Though Macs can read and write to FAT32 disks, ProTools needs to
be on HTFS+ (Mac formatted drives). I believe that is in the Digi documentation as well.
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Ian Hamilton
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Re: Protools and External Harddisk
[Re: Eric Dannewitz]
#709505 - 20/02/09 10:50 AM
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yeah I saw last night that protools require a macos format.
Now I just need to try
and get my bloody drive to format! I can only format in ms-dos, I get an error message
when I try to format it in any mac-os extended format.
Time to scour LaCie
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