OT-Changing drive letters cause problems

avhawaii wrote on 5/24/2006, 12:21 PM
I swap an external drive between a home computer and an office computer for my Vegas projects and I have set the drive letter the same for both computers. Recently I bought a new laptop and I set the drive letter on that computer the same as the others. Now I can not access some of the files created on the new computer on the old ones and vice versa. Did I do something wrong?

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Udi wrote on 5/25/2006, 4:37 AM
I assume that some files are accessible and some are not.

Maybe security/authorization issue?

Udi
TeetimeNC wrote on 5/25/2006, 5:38 AM
I had similar problems until I switched to the "NTFS mounted drive" approach for handling my external drives. Now each of my external drives are mapped to their own folder under My Documents on my PC. I never have to worry about drive letters for the externals. Works a treat. See my comments in this thread: http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=433661

-jerry
avhawaii wrote on 5/28/2006, 10:02 AM
TeeTime, thanks for the reply. I have used the assigned drive letter technique for quite some time between the two existing computers (not networked) and that has worked fine. With this new computer I have also assigned the same drive letter but now the files are not accessible even though the folder is on the drive, explorer says it is empty. Can you walk me through this "NTFS mounted drive" technique? I have a hard time following the steps. Does the drive have to be on a network or can it be just a USB/FW connection?

Thanks!
Harold Brown wrote on 5/28/2006, 6:52 PM
I use Windows XP and NTSF and you can swap an external drive between XP systems all day long and should not have a problem reading any directory or data file. Plug it into the USB port and that is it. XP should see the drive and then you can access it. I have had problems when I changed the actual drive letter and then tried to open a nested veg project. It would not open until I changed the drive letter back to the original letter.