iMovie 10.0.6 and network home folders

[craigw]

It appears from testing and reading that iMovie (10.0.6 for us) no longer supports the iMovie library being on a network drive - see related posts here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5467989?tstart=0

 

The trick mentioned in this post "defaults write -app iMovie allowNV -bool true" does not seem to work on 10.0.6 and as such - kids using the macs are not able to create their iMovie libraries on their network home folders (like they did with pre version 10 - no issues with home drives on Windows 2008 R2 file server over SMB).

 

Anyone else experiences this? I guess Apple logic is that it doesn't want iMovie libraries being pushed across the wire? Only work around I have at present is to

1. Disable the network home folder completely and all the kids works sits on the local drive (no backups - kids have to go to the same machine each time - etc etc)
   
2. Have a network home folder but create a movie folder in the users/shared area for iMovie libraries on each machine. Again kids would have to go to a specific machine each time and other kids could delete their work etc etc
   

Anyone got any other ideas or tricks they know work?

Wally

[davidacland]

We normally prefer local home folders, mounting a network drive on the desktop and letting the users copy their work to there as and when they need to. We've seen a lot of issues with iMovie (and other "heavy" apps) when using network home folders. A few years ago we did test out improving the network connections, ensuring the Macs were on gigabit ethernet but it didn't help much. Laptops on wifi were almost unusable.

 

For some of our sites, where guaranteed central backup of user data is needed, we still keep the data local to the Macs but use rsync scripts to sync the data up to their network drive automatically.

 

David Acland - Amsys

[craigw]

Hi David - I think this is what we will do as well - downside is that the kids have to go back to the same machine each time to work on their projects then...maybe the iMovie library can be copied to the network outside of the app and back down again...will need to test that and see if it works..

[AliG]

We normally prefer local home folders, mounting a network drive on the desktop and letting the users copy their work to there as and when they need to. We've seen a lot of issues with iMovie (and other "heavy" apps) when using network home folders. A few years ago we did test out improving the network connections, ensuring the Macs were on gigabit ethernet but it didn't help much. Laptops on wifi were almost unusable.

 

For some of our sites, where guaranteed central backup of user data is needed, we still keep the data local to the Macs but use rsync scripts to sync the data up to their network drive automatically.

 

David Acland - Amsys

 

I would like to use a sync on logon and log off to sync between local home and network home and would like advice on how to achieve this please

[davidacland]

Hi @AliG

 

A full guide would be a bit tricky here but to get you started, we use rsync in a script to do the sync.

 

This can be quite difficult to get just right so if you want it simpler, you could try out the standard home directory sync feature in OS X. We personally don't use it as there are a few bugs, but if you're not too keen on scripting or terminal commands then it will probably be your only option.

[AliG]

Not had much success with the OS X sync it's a load of carp! I have searched the Mac forum for RSYNC and found a few ideas to get me started.