Moving User Content Files And Folders - 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 or between your local drive and 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 Archive
Use the following table to determine the best method for your situation.
Fixture Network
File-Transfer Method
Drag and Drop
Copy and Paste commands
Clone
Deploying a Content Archive No
Creating a Content Archive
264
Transfer Type
From Server From Client
to Client Machine to
Machine Server(s)
Yes, if format is
Yes valid for the
destination folder
Yes Yes
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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