#SAFE FRAME bug?
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Chris: Message 22207 outlines a way to grab the position of the last frame
that sounds perfect for this problem.
I have to move animations between work and home, but I split them mainly to
keep the size of the texture and opacity maps down. Some of my maps for a
60 frame animation are to big to fit on diskette, but I can often zip them
one at a time and get them on floppy. If I had to make the maps a long as
the whole sequenct they would be completely unmanageable.
Chris
Yup, I saw that message just after I posted the one I sent you.
I recently discovered a utility called zipit (on the dos forum, I think)
that creates self-extracting files across multiple diskettes. I used it
extensively to shuttle files back and forth between my design system and
the rentals I needed to do rendering. I was a little skeptical about it at
first but I didn't have any weird data problems, even when using zipit
across removable cartridge drives.
Chris Barnes
Chris: Thanks, I'll look for Zipit. Several of the service bureaus that
I've talked to use Syquest removable winchester drives. I have got a
rewritable optical drive at work that would be even better, but fewer
places sem to use it.
I mainly need to move big files between home and work, so maybe I'll get a
Syquest drive both places.
Chris
We just got a 44 Mb SyQuest a few weeks ago. We went with the 44 Mb
capacity because we thought most service bureaus had that size and we
couldn't really imagine needing 88 Mb for our files. Well…shortly after
receiving the drive I ended up with a 55 Mb rendered file on a rental
computer. If I had it to do again I'd go for the big one!
Chris
Chris: Thanks for the advice. I think that I remember that the Syquest
drives are SCSI – are yours, and if so are you using their controller?
Thanks
Chris
P.S. I'm a little dissapointed that more places aren't running the
rewritable optical drives – Mine gets 290 Meg on each side.
Chris:
I want to use a rewriteable optical, but I haven't heard of any version
that has software that lets you look up a specific file and get it… i.e.
you end up putting files in volumes on tapes, which you have to go through
one at a time to find the latest version of the file…
Can you spend a little bit of time telling me more about the directory and
file access methodology of a rewriteable optical?
C#
Yes, they are SCSI and yes, we are using their controller. But I think we
,ay be getting an Adaptec SCSI board today because it has a bunch of
generic drivers (we are also installing a CD ROm which didn't come w/
drivers).
BTW, how much was a rewritable optical? 290 Mb per side is great!
Chris Barnes