Hey guys,
So after a quite bit of fussing I've failed to come up with a solution to these issues...
1. Deleted some old backed up P2 folders off a hard drive into my trash, and discovered they were locked and wouldn't delete. I've solved this issue on other comps by holding down Option when deleting, but this doesn't work on my new mac (with these files). Also when I try to manually unlock all the files, it won't let me. Also, if I try to drag the folders out of the trash, it just copies them, and the old buggars always stay in the trash. I'm stumped!
2. Recently did a P2 show and used my PC/Mac FAT32 formatted hard drive to dump footage from via PC. Now that the show finally took my advice and bought their own hard drives (which I have formatted for Mac only) I anticipated some possible issues copying over the footage from a FAT32 formatted drive. It seemed to copy with ease (as no one individual file was over 2.2 GBs) but it seems that the entire contents of the copied folders are about .06Gb less than the original.
In other words, info on the original size says 84.66 GB and the new copied folder is 84.63GB. Some investigation of the files shows that there are ALL there, but some of the audio files are .1mb smaller and some of the Clip files are 4kb instead of 32kb. And its possible some of the video files are smaller too. It seems to be random.
I'm really not comfortable with this situation but I do need to clear the original hard drive. Has anyone encountered this issue before? I suppose I could try manually dragging over each individual file to make sure they copy over properly. But that seems like madness. and I don't know why a 32kb should have problems copying over.
In case you are wondering, all Hard drives are brand new seagate USB 2's. They don't have a firewire port.
So after a quite bit of fussing I've failed to come up with a solution to these issues...
1. Deleted some old backed up P2 folders off a hard drive into my trash, and discovered they were locked and wouldn't delete. I've solved this issue on other comps by holding down Option when deleting, but this doesn't work on my new mac (with these files). Also when I try to manually unlock all the files, it won't let me. Also, if I try to drag the folders out of the trash, it just copies them, and the old buggars always stay in the trash. I'm stumped!
2. Recently did a P2 show and used my PC/Mac FAT32 formatted hard drive to dump footage from via PC. Now that the show finally took my advice and bought their own hard drives (which I have formatted for Mac only) I anticipated some possible issues copying over the footage from a FAT32 formatted drive. It seemed to copy with ease (as no one individual file was over 2.2 GBs) but it seems that the entire contents of the copied folders are about .06Gb less than the original.
In other words, info on the original size says 84.66 GB and the new copied folder is 84.63GB. Some investigation of the files shows that there are ALL there, but some of the audio files are .1mb smaller and some of the Clip files are 4kb instead of 32kb. And its possible some of the video files are smaller too. It seems to be random.
I'm really not comfortable with this situation but I do need to clear the original hard drive. Has anyone encountered this issue before? I suppose I could try manually dragging over each individual file to make sure they copy over properly. But that seems like madness. and I don't know why a 32kb should have problems copying over.
In case you are wondering, all Hard drives are brand new seagate USB 2's. They don't have a firewire port.