You probably didn't "clean" the drive before formatting. The head of the drive probably still registers the HFS Journaled partition. The only way to fix it is to clean the drive in DiskPart, thus deleting the data. https://www.buffalotech.com/knowledge-base/cleaning-a-disk-in-windows-7-using-diskpart I highly recommend backing up the drive

Why not an AAF instead? Never tried ALE from Resolve.

Settings -> Media Creation (project based) -> check the box to filter out System and Launch drive.

I need to check, but I think Avid MC utilizes the GPU for RED playback that has been linked (AMA / UME). Edit. It does " CUDA processing for GPU decoding performance boost on Windows platforms using NVidia cards (16 GB video RAM recommended.)" https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Download/en394823

[quote user="touviere7"] [quote user="smyers63"]One thing I wonder right away is whether even the 32GB of RAM shown in your system specs is enough for MC 2021.[/quote] just a quick check on my system, with 112 GB of ram: win10 20H2 only: 5.9 GB used with MC 2020.12 opened: 61.9 GB MC opened w/1 uhd project: 69.6 GB with resolve studio

For us it always reboot.

There are two passwords. There is the Management Console password and also the "agent" or system password. The agent password can access the system setting (port 5015) and the management console. You will need to enter the system settings (chassis IP: 5015) and change that password. In older Nexis the default was "se-admin".

[quote user="editmk"]Could these folders please be hidden folders so who ever needs them can still access them but it doesnt mess up my project?[/quote] What version of MC and shared storage are you using? This has been the case since at least MC 2018. "Bay folders" do not appear in the project windows folder/bin list.

Not without the involvement of your company's IT department. VPN, network share, etc. would work but by itself, the Nexis does not have a way to transmit across the internet.

Avid I think changed it because on newer OSX releases, apps are not allowed to write at the root of the system drive. To keep it consistent across both OS, any files created on the system drive will lead to the Public folder instead.