When you off-load original camera files, you could make a second copy on a physically separate hard drive. ![]() We suggest off-loading your images and creating your ProSelect Album from your production computer by transferring the images directly to the "Studio Jobs" folder that may or may not be on that local computer. This "Studio Jobs" folder should be on assessable by all computers on the network. That will hold the images that are created from ProSelect Pro production that you will upload to the lab. We suggest letting ProSelect Production create an "Output Images" folder at the time production images are created. JPG, RAW, retouched images (PSD or TIF) and your ProSelect Album file (.PSA) should all be in the same folder, not broken down into subfolders. The job folder should contain all files relating to the job. Here's an example of a directory structure. With this system, all your jobs should be saved here so everything can be easily found. Once you have your wired network in place, it's best to have a well-organized central storage system for your jobs. Again, a local network professional can help you with this process. In both Windows and Mac scenarios, you need to set the shared folder so each machine/user account using that folder or drive, has read and write permissions. Be sure you tell it to save the password so it can login automatically at startup. You can do that by adding the shared folder (or drive) to the login items on each computer in the user account. Once all your machines are connected, you'll need to set your shared folder (Studio Data), to auto-mount on each machine. If you're working on a Mac network, you'll need a similar equipment setup. Be sure "reconnect at login" is selected on each machine. You might have a folder named Studio Data, then call map it as the S: drive on all machines. ![]() If you're working on a Windows network, you'll need to share a drive or a folder. This could be a network server, an internal drive on a computer on the network, an external drive or RAID storage device directly attached to a computer or a NAS (network attached storage) device (although we have seen lots of problems with NAS devices as they are traditionally slow). Once your network is in place, you'll need a shared data point. If you don't have experience with networking, it's probably best to hire a local professional to set it up for you. Using a wireless network usually will not move data fast enough so music and video will not play correctly. This means that all your computers have network cables connecting to a gigabit network switch. If you want to share data with the computers in your studio (in a single physical location) you'll need a wired network configuration.
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