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| 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. | 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. | ||
| + | ==== 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. | ||
| ==== Do you support external hard disks? ==== | ==== Do you support external hard disks? ==== | ||
| - | 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. | + | 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. |
| If that still doesn't solve the problem, you may have found a bug and [[troubleshooting|you can contact us with your symptoms]]. | If that still doesn't solve the problem, you may have found a bug and [[troubleshooting|you can contact us with your symptoms]]. | ||
| - | ==== Why can't I see my mapped network drives? ==== | + | ==== Why can't I connect with network drives? ==== |
| - | PMA.start doesn't support network drives. In order to keep PMA.start free of charge, we opted to limit its functionality to locally stored content. If you want shared access to common 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 commercial [[tile_server|tile server]]. | + | 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 ** | + | ==== 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 | 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 | ||