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Google Drive File Stream Folder as a Pro Tools Volume
MacOS doesn't let me change google drive file stream folder. What can i do to work with google drive folder as a valid Playback/Record Volume? Last month i've changed Google Drive Folder location to a personalized location in my drive and all worked fine.º
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Re: Google Drive File Stream Folder as a Pro Tools Volume
I find that Google changes their architecture often and without warning. What worked yesterday may not work tomorrow. This is why I've left them, as much as possible, for other services. It's also possible that something changed in ProTools to disallow writing to Google Drive. Have you updated ProTools recently?
I'm actually surprised that you were ever able to record to a Google Drive folder, but assuming it worked and now doesn't, and that ProTools hasn't changed, I'd guess that your Google swap folder doesn't allow proper folder privileges for PT. Out of curiosity, why do you record directly to a Google Drive folder? Honestly, that's just asking for trouble. |
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Re: Google Drive File Stream Folder as a Pro Tools Volume
Yes. Record to local drive.
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Re: Google Drive File Stream Folder as a Pro Tools Volume
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I will hazard a guess that almost all Pro Tools users work on only local sessions. The talk about cloud, either Avid Cloud or third party cloud, has really not gone well and have caused some folks a lot of pain. But cloud storage is great for some stuff: many of us will manually copy those sessions to cloud folders, or directly to cloud storage, for backup and/or archive purposes and to collaborate with other users who manually download copies of the session. It's a good idea to zip up the sessions before moving to cloud storage so folks don't mistakingly run them from there. |
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Re: Google Drive File Stream Folder as a Pro Tools Volume
I even can’t import omf/aaf from google drive directory! :/
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Re: Google Drive File Stream Folder as a Pro Tools Volume
For those not familiar with Google Drive, it's capable of acting as a record drive because all files go to a temp folder which is then copied to the cloud. So if you disconnect the cloud component it's like recording to a local drive. It gets ugly because Google is too often screwing with that data, and their protocols, and the service itself is always in flux. I find the whole service to be clunky and unreliable.
However, there was a time (a few years ago) where it was brilliant. GDrive showed up on your desktop like a mounted drive and you could treat it as such. Fantastic! I miss those days. Now it's a mess and every year it gets worse. I do agree that it's not typically a good idea to let any cloud service *continually* govern the folders where ProTools is writing files. I think it's fine if you have backups set to a particular time when you're not working. Not unlike TimeMachine. This is how I handle my cloud backups and there have been no issues whatsoever. |
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Re: Google Drive File Stream Folder as a Pro Tools Volume
Interesting. I assume that you can copy to a different folder -- a local folder -- and then import from there.
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Re: Google Drive File Stream Folder as a Pro Tools Volume
Thanks everybody for giving a time to debate this topic. I know GD it's not reliable but it really helps working on small post production projects in different locations with different collaborators.
I've managed to change google drive location folder logging out account and then entering this on Terminal: touch ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/DriveFS/fp_left_beta After logging in again Google Drive app allowed me to change google drive folder location to a "Google Drive" folder i've made in Desktop and all were good. But in other computer is not working for some reason we are figuring out. Pro tools workspace recognize GD folder as a volume but it doesn't see folder architecture thanks a lot for helping!! |
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Re: Google Drive File Stream Folder as a Pro Tools Volume
That's a pretty dangerous statement no matter how you look at it.
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