Really puzzling ghost R3d's...

[Jeff Brown]

Chaps

I should start by saying this isn't a problem I'm having that is Red specific but I wasn't sure where else to post.

I'm using a 2.5Ghz Macbookpro /4 giogg Ramm / 10.5.5

I use a Sonnet Esata / Expresscard adapter to dump to 2 external drives. On a job a month or so ago I had a freeze up which I think was related to the card being slightly removed by mistake - meant I had to pull the battery and restart.

I now have what appears to be 2 drives that are using mounting points - they show up as "Plato and Puma" even when nothing is attached. When I physically attach Plato it mounts as "Plato1" in certain programs though not in Finder.

Now this is where it gets a bit wierd. I only discovered this because of Redcine and R3Dmanager. All other programs browse via finder and Plato is seen as Plato no problem. Also Disc Utility just sees the real drive and has no referrence of the "ghost drives". Redcine however with it's internal browsing sees both the drives under volumes and R3D Data Manager, though it browses via finder to select dump locations, when selected it it giving me the path "plato1/dump etc"

Stranger still when I browse these ghost drives in Redcine I can see a full Red mag from the job that I was on when I had the crash. I can open all of the clips/ render them etc. I have never dumped a mag to my internal drive and yet somewhere they have been copied there and are available to Redcine. No .r3d's show in Spotlight/Finder and I've tried programs like What File to search everywhere on the internal drive but there's nothing!

How can I find these files and reset these ghost mounted drives? I should mention that I've repaired permissions / uninstalled redcine and trashed preferences etc and nothing seeems to work.

Could someone out there see how the similarity of how Redcine and R3d DataManager work at an OS level help me sort this out (Conrad / Deanan...)?

Any help appreciated!

Cheers

Jeff Brown
RED708

 

[Cail Young]

Here's what I think has happened.

You've had a connection issue with your external hard drives causing it to unmount right before a copy operation or some other operation involving writing to a specific directory which the operation decided to create if it didn't already exist.

Here's what's happened. When you mount drives, they appear in /Volumes/NAME-OF-DRIVE - and the operation has created a normal folder in /Volumes with the same name as the drive, which means when you next mount it OS X has to name the drive something else. In the meantime, you could be dropping files to the phantom folder instead of the real drive by mistake.

Solution: in Finder, hit Cmd-Shift-G, and type in:

/Volumes/

And you should see a folder even if the drive's not connected.

Hope this helps you find your stuff!

 

[Jeff Brown]

Nice one Cail that fixed it.

Just freed up 20 gigg on my internal drive!

Cheers

Jeff