Moving User Content Files And Folders; Downloading Content From A Media Server To Your Local Drive - High End Systems DL.3 User Manual

CHAPTER 16
Content Management Application (CMA)

Moving User Content Files and Folders

User content can be easily moved between fixtures and your local drive as well as between
fixtures. Which method you use depends on:
• How much content you want to move
• What existing server content you want to preserve
• Whether the client machine is currently connected to the Ethernet fixture link
• If you want to maintain currently assigned content identification DMX values
• Which CMA version you are using (Windows or Mac OS)
There are several methods for moving User content files and media folders between media
servers to your local drive:
• Drag and Drop
• Copy and Paste commands
• Cloning transfers the User Content files and their DMX value assignments from one media
server to one or more server(s) on the fixture network.
• Creating a Content Archive
• Deploying a Content Archives the following table to determine the best method for your
situation.
Fixture Network
File-Transfer Method
Drag and Drop
Copy and Paste commands Yes
Clone
Deploying a Content
Archive
Creating a Content Archive

Downloading Content from a Media Server to Your Local Drive

The CMA supports downloading User content files or folders from a media server to your local
drive. To download a file or folder of User Content:
1. Display the Folder or File that you wish to move in the right pane of the CMA window
2. If the destination for the file on your local drive is visible, you can simply drag and drop the
folder or file to that location or an external drive connected to your computer.
OR
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Transfer Type
From Server From Client
to Client Machine to
Machine Server(s)
Yes, if format is
Yes valid for des-
attention folder
Yes
No No
No Yes
Yes No
Between
Networked
Server(s)
No
Does NOT preserve
DMX Values
No
Yes
Preserves DMX values and
Replaces any previous User
No
Content on destination drive
Saves assigned DMX values
No when creating archive from
content on a fixture
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