What's weird is that in backup copies of the movie, inside subfolders of
other main folders, the same is true. To get another copy of the
shared.cst file (needed to drag and drop into the other eight movies in
the folder) I had to go back to a CD copy of the program.
And that's the part that has me baffled too. :(
I'm pretty sure this is not saving me time over the cut/paste/exchange method I was using prior to Warren's letter, although I appreciate his input.
Yeah, I'd agree. But what you're seeing, if my understanding of the symptoms is correct, simply shouldn't be happening either.
Oh wait.
However, when you have an external cast shared by as many as twelve movies, it's a different story.
Yeah, that'll be part of the problem all right (probably all of it). If you have one cast member in an external cast file that's being used in five movies, yeah, you'll want five copies of *that cast file* -- since the *first* drag/drop will empty it from the shared library that's currently open. Those gestures mean *move*, not copy.
So for that the way to go would probably be to make multiple copies of the cast file itself, one for each movie that uses it.
I was thinking that moving one member into an internal cast was emptying the entire external cast file, which definitely shouldn't take place.
A more interesting question was whether the cast file was fully loaded in the shock session. Hadn't even occurred to me to wonder that...
The other folders were for CD and Kiosk distribution, and I WANTED them to use the shared cast. They too lost access to the shared cast.
Did they have their own copies? And were they actually pointing to those copies internally, or did they think they wanted the "cast next door" in the folder alongside themselves (that contains the one you're editing)?
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