RE: Archive Trim Down and Tape Library

["Sylvain Labrosse" <slabross(at)Softimage.COM>]

After consulting with development, we wonder what version of DS you are using.  There was indeed a previous issue where linked media from another project would archive all media files but this has been fixed since a few versions now.  With DS v7.6, if you link to a single clip and media, archiving should only send this material to tape and ignore other media files from other projects.

 

As for an option to un-link media, this is not possible, unless you manually move the media file itself outside of the storage.

Sylvain Labrosse
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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Mike Freyder
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:09 AM
To: DS List
Subject: Archive Trim Down and Tape Library

I understand that when I import a clip from another project (copy 
media) it creates links to the rest of that other project's media in my project, 
hence making a large archive even larger.  Is there any way to break the 
link of that other project's media that is not being used in my project to trim 
the size of the archive down?  What if none of that other project's media 
gets used in my project?  Is there any way to ditch the links of that media 
all together without affecting the other project?  I have tapes in my tape 
library that I'm not utilizing at all, but I'm afraid to delete them from my 
project's tape library, because I don't want them deleted from their original 
projects.  Is that fear 
founded?

Thanks!

-Frey