User Manual

Working with Bins and Projects in an Avid Shared Storage Environment
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The Project window opens. For a description of the elements specific to Avid shared storage
in the Project window, see “Sharing Bins and Projects in Avid Shared Storage” on page 100.
3. Double-click a Bin icon to open one of the bins.
The bin appears with a Bin Lock Status button. You can click the red (locked) or green
(unlocked) Bin Lock Status button to view a history file that shows which computers and
users have modified the bin and the date and time of the modifications.
The Bin Lock Status button. When the button is green (top), the bin is unlocked. When the button is red
(bottom) the bin is locked.
When a bin is unlocked, you have permission to make changes. You should not make
changes to a locked bin. See “Considerations for Working with Shared Bins and Projects” on
page 103.
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The Bin Lock Status button does not appear if the bin is not on Avid shared storage.
Working with Locks and Shared Bins
Your Avid editing application uses a locking mechanism to help you keep track of who is
currently working in a shared bin. Only one user can write to the bin, but multiple users can read
the files in the bin.
The user who opens the bin first controls the lock and obtains write access to the bin. Bold text in
the Project window also identifies bins that are locked by another user. When the person who
controls the lock closes the bin, it becomes available for another user to open and control the
lock.
If one user has the lock and another user has the same bin open, when the first user closes the
bin, the second user must close and reopen the bin to control the lock.