Temporary Media drives are free to be cleared of files and used while you are at the workstation. You must back up your files to a FireWire drive before you leave the workstation.

Make sure that you pay attention to where you are saving your project files when you start a new project. The Temporary Media drives on the workstations are the only place that you should store media while working. Before you start to use a workstation, delete all files on the Temporary Media drive. This defragments the drive to give you the best performance and makes it very clear which files you need to back up when you are finished. Make sure that you back up your media to a FireWire drive when you are finished. Files are deleted off of these drives on a regular basis.

Removeable media should not be mounted on desktop while you are editing audio or video. Your Temporary Media drive will give you the best performance for this task.