Bob is absolutely correct!
And that includes Avid DS RP so it helps find projects and sequences to
import and the media files, so RP can process the media caches.
Sylvain
:-)
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Bob Maple
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 1:10 PM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Another "easy" Friday Question
> This has recently started to happen to me too. My projectlocations.txt
> file says \\dsnitris-dna\ds_projects_1 My ignorance may be showing but
> that doesn't look like the path to my F drive where the DS projects
> folder lives. What should the txt file say?
It's a UNC path to the machine - ds_projects_1 should be a share to your
F:\DS Projects folder (or wherever it is).... if you look at it, it
should have the little hand icon under it and if you pull up the sharing
properties for the folder, you should see that share name.
"dsnitris-dna" is the name of your computer on the network.
The reason it's stored like this (and not the local path with drive
letter) is to make it agnostic; Any machine on the same network can
access that particular folder via the same exact path. This is for
times when the indexers might not be on the same computer; For instance
at my place we have 3 DSes and the Project Indexer runs on a totally
separate 4th machine and keeps track of the projects on the other 3.
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