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--- faq [2020/08/10 15:03] – created yves
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-** What do I do when my slides don't render properly? **
+====== Frequently Asked Questions ======
-When your slides are corrupt, you can experience either one of the following symptoms when trying to view it in our software:
+Do you have a problem that you don't see described here? Or does our proposed solution not work for you? See [[troubleshooting|our troubleshooting section]] for more assistance.
-It's possible for a slide to render partially:
+==== What is a local drive? ====
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+A local drive is any drive or storage medium that is a physical part of or physically connected to your pc. In other words not connected over a network.
-Or, it's possible for a slide to be reported as "missing", even if it's there on your hard disk physically:
+==== Do you support external hard disks? ====
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+We do, but we don't support plug and play. If you external hard disk doesn't show up after opening up the PMA.start front-end user interface, the easiest way is to re-start the software.
-** Do you support external hard disks? **
+If that still doesn't solve the problem, you may have found a bug and [[troubleshooting|you can contact us with your symptoms]].
-We do, but we don't support plug and play. If you external hard disk doesn't show up after opening up the PMA.start front-end user interface, the easiest way to re-start the software.
+==== Why can't I connect with network drives? ====
-If that still doesn't solve the problem, you may have found a bug and [[https://free2.pathomation.com/contact/|you can contact us with your symptoms]].
+PMA.start doesn't allow opening images on network drives. In order to keep PMA.start free of charge, we opted to limit its functionality to locally stored content. If you want to use shared network resources, you need to be at least a registered user of [[https://my.pathomation.com|My Pathomation]], or [[https://www.pathomation.com/pma.core|consider upgrading to PMA.core]], our full feature [[tile_server|tile server]].
+==== I am behind a proxy server ====
+PMA.start will try to autodetect your proxy server settings and authorization settings from your OS. This is mainly used for server to server communication in the transfer page