Seemingly unnecessarily having to reconnect media.

Hello All,
Back in the saddle once again, without the fear of being tossed to the ground by the FCP Bull.
I have been using the a G-Technology drive to travel from work to home. The transfer (copying) to the G-Drive works fine. When I get home, there's no problem opening the files and continuing my work.
The problem/challenge comes when I return to work. I seem to have to reconnect many files, which is a very time consuming (read frustrating) experience. I imagine that I'm doing something wrong when I get back to work and want to copy back to the MacBook (LaCie External Drive).
Without greater detail, is there something I should keep in mind?
Thanks.
DG

If you keep your files well organized, ie all media files in your capture folder it should be easier to reconnect. you might want to maintain the project file on that firewire drive as well. open the project file from the one you keep on the firewire drive when you get to either the home or the office. when I used to take work home I'd work this way and didn't have to relink. I made a folder on each the home and work machine to keep a backup that i'd drag from the firewire drive and the end of my session, then append a date to the file name to keep up with what was goin on. I always had a project backup, and I'd backup any files created that couldn't be captured from tape in the event of a disaster. I had a couple of disasters but was able to recover at least the latest work. If you have to rent a deck to capture buy a drive to hold the captures as a backup.

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Did the back and forth between PC and Mac file systems screw up my files somehow?
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TS1398 Since upgrading to ios6, all apple devices (new ipad, 2 iphone4 & itouch) are having difficulty reconnecting to the home hub wifi network. I.e, every time the lock screen comes on, the wifi connection is lost when you reopen the device. It's an ios

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