Help Changing Scratch Disk on Existing Project

I created a project and worked with it, unknowingly, using the default Scratch Disks that Adobe assigns on your C drive in Premiere Pro CS4. Now I want to assign the Scratch Disks to other hard drives in my system. Everytime I do this and close the project and re-open it again, it defaults back to the original default Scratch Disk setup.
Can anyone tell me how I can get the project to recognize and use my new Scratch Disk setup?
Thank you.

What you're doing is the only way. It should work fine. I can't think of any reason that it isn't working.

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I love FCP Studio and swear by it for most things. I'll cut straight to the point...
I want to be able to set my scratch disk location (capture scratch, render files, audio render files) as a project based setting NOT a system wide setting, and I want FCP to remember this setting for each project.
I am very frustrated with the fact that you can't set the scratch disk to different locations per project, as I am constantly changing the location depending on what I am working on, and sometimes I forget and I'm working off the wrong drive.
Also, sometimes I'm multi-tasking and working on two or more projects for different clients off of different mobile drives. This becomes a big cluster f$!k when I'm forced to render and digitize everything to one drive yet I'm working off of several removable drives that I need to take with me at some point. I need elements for each project to stay on their own drive!
Now, I understand that my need goes outside the real of the normal editor, and may actually cause a larger fundamental back-end issue that I am not aware of, but is it asking too much to have the scratch disk setting a project based setting, and not a system setting?
It seems to me that FCP could just remember where you want to point your files to depending on what project you are working in?
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Matthew Lynn wrote:
... It seems to me that FCP could just remember where you want to point your files to depending on what project you are working in?...
You would think ...
I completely agree and have posted about this on many occasions.
You might find this an interesting read:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10916404#10916404
I absolutely love the ability to set different drives for different file types if we choose.
But it should be a PROJECT setting not a System wide preference.
This thread is just another example of why it should be that way.
Send a suggestion to Apple http://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html
Hey, ya never know.
best,
g

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Hi frbra1,
The reason why you are getting this prompt is just beacause the files that are saved on your scratch disk while working on MAC have location "/Volume/name of the HD/program or file name", but when you connect that drive to windows the location changes to "Drive Name:\" . So. it is the adressing issue of the drive that you are facing with the drives. It is alo not always necessary that the drives get same name when they are attached to the machine.
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I'm asking this again as my first attempt went into empty space.
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After attempting to reorganize and cleanup my hard drive, I have come across the reason why I have such a random system to begin with. A while back I had the same problem, but chose to let it lie instead of fixing it. So now I'm asking for help.
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Well, I'm really trying to simply recreate this file under another name, "Final Cut Pro," instead of "Final Cut Pro Documents," and therein lies the problem, because it creates this folder by default. Right now I've got everything saving to my "Final Cut Pro" folder as my scratch disk location, and a blank "Final Cut Pro Documents" folder that I want to delete.
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That's the trouble the OP was having. Attempting to impose your desires onto FCP is dangerous without thorough grounding in the FCP Way. I think Apple's organization structure is lame, unnecessarily restrictive, and confusing. But all of my attempts to impose my own thinking patterns upon FCP lead directly to disaster.
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I know this has been addressed on other forums. I've looked though several of them and followed the procedures and I STILL cannot get Photoshop to open.
I click to open Photoshop and I get this:
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I click OK and I get this:
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