it gets stuck on Initialising. 

mac os 10.14.6

avid MC 2019.11

lacie drive. 

i eject it loads no problem. 

 kinda annoying,,,,

Nathan

What are the permissions set too on the external drive?  

Marianna

hey - thanks for getting back to me..

me- R&W

staff R&W

everyone read only - ive just changed to Read & Write 

it still hangs 

Nathan...

what kind of Lacie drive and is it RAID or ???? and what driver version?   ALso I cant recall if you are on MC 2019 or 2018?

Marianna

its a G-Technology 6TB G-DRIVE USB G1 USB 3.0 Hard Drive

MC 2019.11

not sure what you mean my driver version sorry (had a google)

tried first aid - but stilljo joy. 

not the end of the world - a little anoying though.  

Check the external drive for files or folders containing slashes in their names, e.g.:

"Footage 11/26/2019"

Doesn't matter where they are in the filesystem... I've seen this cause problems with MC.

-Ryan

We have had intermittent issues of all sorts with G-Raid drives.  They sometimes have various files on them that tick off Macs.  Does it try to load a second partition with "Tools" or such in it?

Jef

thanks for your help , unfortunately  i couldnt find anything like this on the drive. 

jef:

We have had intermittent issues of all sorts with G-Raid drives.  They sometimes have various files on them that tick off Macs.  Does it try to load a second partition with "Tools" or such in it?

Jef

nope, no Tools, thanks though 

nathan morris:

6TB G-DRIVE USB

Would initializing the drive to have smaller partitions. 3x 2TB partitions for instance.

Alayne

- Can you tell at which point the initialising gets stuck? What is on display in the splash screen?

- What is the drive's file system?

- If possible, as Alayne Holmes said, I wouldn't bother and just re-initialise. Number of partitions at will. One should be fine though.

thanks for your help - it gets stuck on the final intialzing - the selct projects screen will notcome up

drive format is APFS 

i dont really want to re-ininalise if possible. 

Has the drive been used for editing before?

Is there an Avid MediaFiles folder already on the drive? (If so did you try to temporarily rename it?)

How much data is on the drive?

When you changed the permissions for everyone, did you apply the permissions to enclosed items?

I don't know whether APFS has Avid's blessing for external drives. I recently used an internal APFS NVMe without problems. But unless forced otherwise I stick to HFS for local media.

I had issues on a media drive (HFS format, with system drive APFS), where I could not injest media to the drive.  It kept the files in a "temporary" folder but never incorporated the new material into the database until I selected "ignore ownership on this volume".

I submitted a report on this.

Ernie

thanks for your help -

i have selected 'ignore ownership' no change

and to answer someone else - yes the drive has been used for editing before.

maybe the problemis is with APFS - bit of a pain, but not the end of the world.