User Manual

Working with Bins and Projects in an Avid Shared Storage Environment
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You can instruct your Avid editing application to keep a bin locked even after you close it.
You can click the red or green Bin Lock Status button in the bin to view a history file that shows
which computers and users have modified the bin.
To open a bin without controlling the lock:
t Alt+double-click (Windows) or Option+double-click (Macintosh) the bin in the Project
window.
To permanently lock a bin:
1. Select one or more bins in the Project window.
2. Right-click the Bin icon, and select Lock Project Bin.
An asterisk appears next to the user name in the Project window. In this case, the bin remains
locked even after you close it.
To unlock the bin:
t Right-click the bin in the Project window, and select Unlock Project Bin.
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The Lock Project Bin and Unlock Project Bin commands are also available from the Clip menu.
Considerations for Working with Shared Bins and Projects
Suggestions for Improving Performance When Working with Shared Bins
The following information is provided to improve performance when working with shared bins
in an Avid shared storage environment.
• Do not use the same name for your editing system machine name and your user name. Do
not use the same name for security objects such as machine names, user names, group
names, and domain names. If any two security objects have the same name, Windows might
become confused and sharing might not work properly.
• Do not use the same prefix for machine names in a shared environment. No full name can be
a prefix of another name. If one of the systems has a machine name that is the full name, and
others in the environment have the prefix as part of their machine name, problems can occur.
For example, if an editing system has a machine name ABC and additional editing systems
in the shared environment have machine names ABCnn, ABCxx, the following problems
could occur:
- When the system with the machine name ABC is writing to a directory, the systems
whose machine names have the same prefix (ABCnn and ABCxx) might not be able to
access the directory.
- When the system with the machine name ABC is rendering, systems whose machine
names have the same prefix (ABCnn and ABCxx) might be unable to launch.