Unable write to selected path

Get answers to your questions about color grading, editing and finishing with DaVinci Resolve.
  • Author
  • Message
Offline

Fernando Quant

  • Posts: 11
  • Joined: Wed Aug 26, 2015 4:45 am

Unable write to selected path

PostWed Mar 30, 2016 2:12 am

Hi guys, my problem is that for a while Resolve has been telling me that it is unable to write to cache/gallery/capture path, it says that it doesn't have permission.
Any idea what the problem may be?

I added some captures of the issue messages.
Attachments
error 3.PNG
error 3.PNG (7.59 KiB) Viewed 832 times
error 2.PNG
error 2.PNG (7.5 KiB) Viewed 832 times
erroe 1.PNG
erroe 1.PNG (7.38 KiB) Viewed 832 times
Offline
User avatar

JP Perry

  • Posts: 323
  • Joined: Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:07 pm
  • Location: Portland, Oregon

Re: Unable write to selected path

PostWed Mar 30, 2016 6:44 am

Do you have your scratch disk (Preferences>Media Storage) setup correctly?
Gray Cat Films | www.graycatfilms.com
MacPro 12-core | AMD RX 580 | 32GB | DeckLink Mini | Flanders CM170 | Tangent Ripple | OS X Mojave
Offline

Fernando Quant

  • Posts: 11
  • Joined: Wed Aug 26, 2015 4:45 am

Re: Unable write to selected path

PostWed Mar 30, 2016 12:51 pm

what do u mean?
Attachments
error 4.PNG
error 4.PNG (17.21 KiB) Viewed 810 times
Offline
User avatar

waltervolpatto

  • Posts: 10536
  • Joined: Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:07 pm
  • Location: 1146 North Las Palmas Ave. Hollywood, California 90038 USA

Re: Unable write to selected path

PostWed Mar 30, 2016 2:36 pm

if you look at the scratch file name there is a square-like character in the path.

that is an illegal character for Resolve.

use only letters/number/underscores for the cache path
W10-19043.1645- Supermicro MB C9X299-PGF - RAM 128GB CPU i9-10980XE 16c 4.3GHz (Oc) Water cooled
Decklink Studio 4K (12.3)
Resolve 18.5.1 / fusion studio 18
GPU 3090ti drivers 512.59 studio
Offline
User avatar

JPOwens

  • Posts: 1511
  • Joined: Fri Apr 12, 2013 8:04 pm
  • Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Re: Unable write to selected path

PostWed Mar 30, 2016 3:00 pm

There was also a user complaining recently about write permissions denied because the drive itself only had a logical path name and not a "proper" name. The safest names for drives basically go back to MSDOS alphanumerics only. If you put in a slash, or a # sign, dash, asterisk, or anything like that the browser will either get lost or simply refuse to move or create files.

There is a reason that Apple delivers its computers with the boot drive named "Macintosh HD" -- frankly even the lowercase alphanumerics may give some cross-platform OS grief. Like a Linux overlay, for example may have trouble -- if you get into generating DCPs, this will become another issue.

jPo

Return to DaVinci Resolve

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Frank Fischer, Mads Johansen, Mbeare, panos_mts, roger.magnusson, websnail and 278 guests