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Storing Video files locally

A while back I remember questions about saving files to a second hard drive.
I would like my students to store their iMovie2 and Media100 files on
non-startup hard drives locally at workstations. I also would like my
students to be in the Restricted Finder environment. I discovered a solution
for iMovie2, but it is not working for Media100.
Solution
In MM/Workgroups/Privileges, set "Folder on the startup disk named:" to
Videos
Log on with System Access on the workstation, navigate to desired
non-startup hard drive/Users folder (MM puts one their automatically) and
place a folder called Videos in each users folder that you want to be able
to save iMovies.
This also has the advantage that other students cannot see these iMovie
files and mess with them.
However, you also automatically get a folder "Videos" on your startup drive
that anyone can read/write to.
I'm not totally sure, but it seems as though performance degrades on
playback/export on large projects if the iMovie file is nested too
deeply--this might be a problem.

Unfortunately, my Media100 app is too old to run on OS9 (I'm using the
dreaded 7.6.1) and MM does not create a Users folder on a non-startup hard
drive (and it doesn't work to just drag them). Any ideas, or is the best one
UPGRADE?

--
Gordon Giedt, Teacher
Don Pedro High School
email@hidden
209-852-2864



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