Here are a few other things that I've learned about using a Cinesend, both stuff that I've discovered myself and that the Cinesend guys have told me:
- When logged into the Cinesend Venue Login webpage, you can click on your name at the top right, then Theatre Name-Settings to see your current file transfer speed.
- Sometimes jobs will sit at "triggered" if the machine misses the notification that they're finished. You can just click the three dots to the right of the job and select "Clear Job" to remove them from the list. In the rare case where something unusual happened and the delete didn't finish, this will let you "re-delete" the file, which usually
solves everything. The three dots show up with Chrome but not with Firefox for reasons that I don't understand. (This won't make much sense until you've seen how it works yourself, but basically if you have a pending job that's still pending a day or a week later, then you'll probably want to retrigger the job or delete the job. Otherwise it will just sit there as pending forever.) - There's a ~500GB chunk of the hard drive that's reserved for system use - so it will always show as "used" so that the media library can't overwrite it by mistake.
- If you go to your "settings" page (as in note 1 here), there's an item called "Stranded Assets". This is partially downloaded files when you stop a download mid-way (or if, say, your connection drops out) so they can be resumed in the future without having to start downloading from the beginning. There's a button there to delete them if you don't need them any more.
- If you have a computer that's on the same network as your Cinesend device (either the one that's connected to your router or the one that's connected to your server) you can view the files on it by logging into it with ftp using the same username and password that you used when you set up the device as a Content Source.
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