Being able to manipulate NTFS files outside Windows can get you over a multitude of problems. And if you're comfortable with shell scripts you can build your own customised backup utility, too.

For what it's worth, Vista allows a response equivalent to "No to all". But I love the Midnight Commander suggestion, luca!

Borotu, you PM'd me about this same question, but since this might of interest to other users I've chosen to answer through the forum. The earlier thread that you refer to is not the same as your current problem. In both the PM and here you've shown the path mentioned in the error message as Z:/AvidMediFiles//MXF/creatings/filename. I'm

[quote user="stompy"]It has ... a very good video card.[/quote]Oh, dear. If it isn't a card that Avid is designed to use then it's probably a very bad video card. For best results with Avid you really should be using an nVidia Quadro card from Avid's approved list, with the nVidia driver supplied/recommended by Avid. Avid uses

Since you already have MC 3.5.1 if you want to get the most up-to-date versions it would be much cheaper to order a boxed upgrade to MC 4. That way you'll get the latest versions of all of the bundled software at a really good price.

As a follow on from Larry's comment, what it really looks like is happening here is that you're attempting to drive Avid in the same way that you drove Premiere. If that's the case you'll just find the whole Avid experience pretty frustrating. It's worth persevering though. Once you get your head around it, you'll find the Avid

I haven't used the 204, but have done a lot of work with both MC and Xpro using a 202. Because of the ingest options that Avid currently has you should find no issues with that camera. We copy our P2 media directly to portable HDDs in the field and import from those. I haven't tried AMA yet, but by all accounts that should just work too.

[quote user="NICKB"]none of them has an auto creative edit button that can replace an editor![/quote]I'm sure someone's working on it!

[quote user="AndrewAction"]I have done this (replacing just one drive) in the last couple of months and now have a second drive from the original 4 starting to play up. (both out of the 5 year Avid drive warranty) So I will replace all 4 next this time using the one relatively new one as an un striped drive for audio or DV or HDV projects

You can also use the v2 effects to control the parameters that you keyframe. If you don't know what v2 effects are, try clicking on the little pink mini-timeline icon at the bottom right of the effects tool. Once you're there you can delete all keyframes, delete selected keyframes, and/or delete redundant keyframes. That way since you only calculate