User Manual

Working with Projects
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If you are working with projects created on local drives, then note the following:
• A local project resides on the C: drive of the Avid editing system.
• If the connection between the Avid editing system and shared storage is lost, the project and
its contents are unlikely to become corrupt as a by-product.
• You cannot login to the project from another workstation. The exception is if you are in an
Interplay environment. In this case, you (or other users) must go to the Interplay Projects
folder to locate the contents created in this project.
• From an administration standpoint, you must clean these projects up or archive them from
each editing system. At a large site this can become time consuming and needs to become
part of the Administrator’s workflow.
For information on the files and folders that your Avid editing application creates as part of a
project, see “Avid Projects and Avid Users Folders” on page 46.
You should also back up your project information regularly to a separate storage device, as
described in “Backing Up Your Project Information” on page 64.
Private
A Private Project is stored locally. It can be accessed only by the user currently logged on to the
editing machine. On a Windows system, a Private Project is always stored under the user’s
Documents directory. An administrator may be able to access this project if they have read/write
permission to the user’s directory.