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1. Re: Disk Cache drive..won't let me change
Rick Gerard Jul 26, 2012 8:13 PM (in response to lou4uandme)How are your drives connected? How are they formatted? If a drive is visible in a explorer or finder you should be able to choose it.
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2. Re: Disk Cache drive..won't let me change
lou4uandme Jul 26, 2012 8:29 PM (in response to Rick Gerard)thanks for the quick reply!
I have 5 drives that are all sata (no raids yet) C, M, N, J, Z all are 1 TB each
This is strange, Up until last night, i was able to select the M drive as a cache but the other 2 cache paths only allowed the "USERS NAME" icon which opens to all C drive stuff.
But now, I added another drive tonight, and now AE won't allow me to select ANY other path but the c Drive.
I am going NUTS!
Also, yes there are all available in explorer, my computer, etc.
The only icon i get is the "PC name" with a drop down that expands to Destop, my document, etc.. but no MY COMPUTER icon
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3. Re: Disk Cache drive..won't let me change
lou4uandme Jul 26, 2012 8:33 PM (in response to lou4uandme) -
4. Re: Disk Cache drive..won't let me change
Mylenium Jul 26, 2012 11:02 PM (in response to lou4uandme)Temporarily unmount the new drive in your disk management tool and try again. Could be that it shuffled up your drive letters and now Windows is using a wrong remebered file dialog. You can also flush that stuff from your registry (something with MRU and AfterFX.exe in your user-specific branch somewhere, should be HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version etc. or somethiong like that...)
Mylenium
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5. Re: Disk Cache drive..won't let me change
lou4uandme Jul 27, 2012 4:13 AM (in response to Mylenium)well I did "rename" all the drive letters after i installed the other drive. i will look into that.
But remember, before I added the additional drive, I was only able to change 1 of the 3 cache paths that adobe has.
The other 2 did not show a MY Computer Icon..
I think i am going to call adobe
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6. Re: Disk Cache drive..won't let me change
Mylenium Jul 27, 2012 7:09 AM (in response to lou4uandme)Windows itself remebers file dialog layouts and paths and in addition your graphics card driver may remeber such stuff. It's unlikely that anyone from Adobe support can sort this out for you. You may wish to check a generic Windows geek forum instead.
Mylenium
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7. Re: Disk Cache drive..won't let me change
lou4uandme Jul 27, 2012 7:58 AM (in response to Mylenium)Yeah you'r right. I just looked at my CACHE folder in Cinema 4D, and its missing the MY COMPUTER drives as well.
It seems to be a windows thing But, i was able to TYPE the new path in Cinema 4D and it worked.
However, Although AE shows the path (c:\users\Lou\AppData\Temp),
I can't retype in a different path.
I went into the PREFS txt file, found the Cache path and changed it from there,
but as soon as AE starts, it overwrites it back to it's default path.
Does anyone know how I can change this path via Pref files,XLM file, etc..????
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8. Re: Disk Cache drive..won't let me change
Mylenium Jul 27, 2012 9:23 AM (in response to lou4uandme)but as soon as AE starts, it overwrites it back to it's default path.
That shouldn't happen. If it does, it means whatever folder you assign is not accessible and it basically takes us back to where we started - you have a permissions problem. Reset user permissions and file ownership on all your drives. Right-click --> Properties --> Security tab.
Mylenium
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9. Re: Disk Cache drive..won't let me change
lou4uandme Jul 27, 2012 10:12 AM (in response to Mylenium)whoa...you might be on to something....
I am going to check....brb
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10. Re: Disk Cache drive..won't let me change
lou4uandme Jul 27, 2012 11:34 AM (in response to lou4uandme)Ah crap..no good, I have them all set to FULL in the permissions
. but interesting....in the preferences inside Cinema 4D, any 'path" browse button is also missing the MY COMPUTER icons but if I wanted to create a texture and used the "browse" button, it works fine.
I guess certain "browse" buttons open up different windows. I am at a lost for words at this point
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11. Re: Disk Cache drive..won't let me change
lou4uandme Jul 27, 2012 5:56 PM (in response to lou4uandme)Ok incase i run into this issue again, i am keeping the answer on this forum:
I SOLVED IT!
I had to UNCHECK... ENABLE DISK CACHE first.
Then, go into the preference txt file, change the path & save.
When back in AE, the path is changed (greyed out at the moment)
once enabled, the path was changed AND..all off my drive choices where all there in the browse folder.
Yippy!
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12. Re: Disk Cache drive..won't let me change
Mylenium Jul 27, 2012 11:14 PM (in response to lou4uandme)Still, your system is jinxed somehow and you will have to fix that one of those days...
Mylenium



