Eric Bowman » mac http://www.ericsbowman.com motion graphics, art, design, 3D, tutorials and whatever else I feel like writing about. Wed, 26 May 2010 15:25:58 +0000 en hourly 1 After Effects error: making file specification – no such volume (-35) http://www.ericsbowman.com/after-effects/after-effects-error-no-such-volume/ http://www.ericsbowman.com/after-effects/after-effects-error-no-such-volume/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:26:09 +0000 Eric B http://www.ericsbowman.com/?p=55 Have you come across this error before in After Effects?

After Effects error: making file specification – no such volume (-35)

Yeah, it sucks.  Well, today was my first time experiencing this error.  I was opening an archived After Effects project, and as soon as it started to open I saw the error message.  I racked my brain trying to figure out why it was missing media because I was opening the project from a collected files folder.  I kept saying to myself,”This is what collected files is for…I shouldn’t be missing ANYTHING!”.  To top it all off, I had to continuously click the button as it tried to open the project because it was missing every single asset.  Finally it opened in After Effects and all assets were missing so I relinked everything and saved the project.  Fast forward 10 minutes later, AE crashed on me and I had to restart the program only to be welcomed by that annoying error message AGAIN!  So I got smart and googled the error message.

Well it turns out that the HFS file system on Mac has a 32 character limit on any Volume Name.  My external drive was exactly 32 characters.  I simply closed After Effects, renamed the external drive by shaving off a few characters of the Volume Name and TADA…Everything was fine!

So lesson of the day: Don’t make your Volume Names longer than 32 characters!

]]> http://www.ericsbowman.com/after-effects/after-effects-error-no-such-volume/feed/ 2 Gmail Notifier for Mac not checking mail as often? http://www.ericsbowman.com/gmail/gmail-notifier-for-mac-not-checking-mail-as-often/ http://www.ericsbowman.com/gmail/gmail-notifier-for-mac-not-checking-mail-as-often/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:39:51 +0000 Eric B http://www.ericsbowman.com/?p=50 I noticed that on my Mac Pro running 10.5.8, with Google Notifier version 1.10.6.879 I was experiencing long delays between checks.  It seems the moment I updated to this version it was waiting for long periods of time to check my email.  Sometimes I would have to manually force it to check, or go to Firefox and check it manually.

Well I found a page with a tip from Johnnygozy:

I think I’ve figured out a solution for this problem. If you click on the mail icon, then hold down command and option keys while clicking on preferences in the drop down box, you will be prompted with a box that has a key and value prompt. Type “AutocheckInterval” under key (this seems to be case-sensitive) and then under value type in the number in minutes of how often you want it checked. You will need to quit out of the notifier (again found in the drop down box under the mail icon) and then run the app again for your change to take effect.  I typed in 1 and it is checking every minute or so now for me. I hope this works for everyone else too.

This worked perfectly for me, but some users are experiencing trouble.  Give it a try.

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