External Hard Drive for WMM?

[RON]

I read a lot about having an USB 2.0 hard drive that you can store you
projects on. I Understand how this can be effective in saving and what not.
What I dont understand is say the External Drive is Drive G: and My main
hard drive (that WMM is on is C Even though WMM is looking at Drive G: when
you load the project doesnt it still have to USE C: because WMM is on that
drive. ANd thus still have to share space and be slow ETC? Or am I missing
something that by saving your project on the G: Drive that WMM only looks
there and becomes more efficient.
ThanksRON

 

[John Inzer]

I read a lot about having an USB 2.0 hard drive that you can store you
projects on. I Understand how this can be effective in saving and
what not. What I dont understand is say the External Drive is Drive
G: and My main hard drive (that WMM is on is C Even though WMM is
looking at Drive G: when you load the project doesnt it still have to
USE C: because WMM is on that drive. ANd thus still have to share
space and be slow ETC? Or am I missing something that by saving your
project on the G: Drive that WMM only looks there and becomes more
efficient.
ThanksRON

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The files you would load are the .mswmm project
files which are relatively small. They do not include
the memory hogging source files (movie clips,
audio clips and still shots).

Your .archived project files, source files and saved
(completed) movie files could be on a separate drive.

Also...regular maintenance can help to speed
up the editing process:

Empty your Temporary Internet Files Folder.

(260897) How to Delete the Contents of the
Temporary Internet Files Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=260897

Running Disk Cleanup, Error Checking and
Defrag on a regular schedule is a good idea.

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

(315265) How to Perform Disk Error Checking
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265
(check the two boxes..."Automatically fix file
system errors" and "Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors") the utility will run
the next time you restart your computer.
(run error checking repeatedly until it finds
no errors)

(314848) How to Defragment Your Disk
Drive Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[RON]

John, Thanks for explaining that plainly. Your Illustration cleared it up. I
do defrag and clean out the files on an ongoing basis (I use Glary Utilites).
I had just read a lot that having an external for editing in WMM would make
it a lot easier, but couldnt understand some of the finer points. Which you
answered, thanks. Now if I could just figure out the TITLE vs SUBTITLE thing
Id have a bang up week.
RON

 

[John Inzer]

John, Thanks for explaining that plainly. Your Illustration cleared
it up. I do defrag and clean out the files on an ongoing basis (I use
Glary Utilites). I had just read a lot that having an external for
editing in WMM would make it a lot easier, but couldnt understand
some of the finer points. Which you answered, thanks. Now if I could
just figure out the TITLE vs SUBTITLE thing Id have a bang up week.
RON

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Provide some details on your Title issue
and maybe I can offer some ideas.

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Graham Hughes]

On the ext hdd question, you'd also be reading from drive C whilst writing
to drive G, much faster than reading and writing to the same drive.

 

[RON]

Thanks for the offer, Grahm answered it. I couldnt figure out why a subtitle
could be made any length (I had pictures on screen for 2 seconds) but when I
went to "Zoom in and fades" couldnt get it below 2.25 as you can imagine
quite messed up my timeline. Yikes so much to learn!