Hi all,
Very long-time user of VEGAS but currently, and mysteriously, all of my live copies of VEGAS [17, 18, 19] are not allowing me to browse to my Workstation drives. If I go to File > Preferences > Prerender file folder, I get just one option: Desktop. Clearly this is the one of my 50 TB of drives that I definitely do not want to flood out with pre-render files! Anyone else had this problem? Am I missing something here? System is Windows 11, 64 GB RAM, everything patched and up to date.
It happened with the latest Win11 update I would guess. OneDrive. I turned it off since I've never used it and have no problems with it dictating only one location (OneDrive C:) for storage location.
Makes me want to go back to Win10.....
Having installed the latest Windows 11 update just hours ago, I've just checked my VP19 - but I think you mean File/Properties/Prerender - and all expected destination folders/drives/external drives are there. But then I'm using a PC, not a workstation.
Exactly that yes. That is what I would expect to see. I just get DESKTOP option but no browser pop-up, as you are showing. Looks like it's something on my Editing workstation but re-start on Windows and updates on VEGAS don't seem to be fixing it so far. Curious - and no doubt significant to the backroom coding boys - that it is doing this on V17/18/19 on my system. Obviously, I don't want to dump render files all over my fairly small SSD OS drive!
Are those Vegas programs all installed at C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro ....?
Yes - installation paths are all normal, as you suggest. VEGAS will render to D/E/F/G drives, just not seeing them in this dialogue box. Just 'DESKTOP' with no pop-up browser window.
I would suspect (and reload) VEGAS 19 installation, but 18 and 17 are doing the same thing.
Don't let one monkey stop your show. Poke the address where you want your pre-rendered files to go into Vegas Pro Internal settings.
Yes - that was my first instinct. However the path in there [C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\VEGAS Pro\17.0\] will not allow me to delete it or overwrite it. All very odd.
At the Windows Welcome Screen, do you logon as "Administrator" or as "LongJohn" who is a member of the Administrators Group?
Logged in as Admin as usual. So far as I know I haven't changed anything. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I also tried changing the Temp file path from Options/Preferences/General within VEGAS and that is also giving me Desktop only.
It may be worth stripping out all the VEGAS apps on this system and re-loading just v19 but it's always a bit of a time-pit when you're busy, isn't it? I was hoping someone had already fallen over this one and had a Eureka moment!
BTW: Just checked my other (more or less identical...) workstation, and VEGAS is running completely normally on that one - both patched to same version, both on Windows 11. Mysterious.
Cheers,
John M
Have tried running Vegas as administrator?
Yes. If you hit run as Administrator it doesn't run.