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Oh the surprises in this business

In our business, technical surprises are a certainty.

Sharing one such episode.

A while back, we were doing a project. Finally, it was time to take the final product.

I carry a 32GB pen drive. The project size was 8GB.

The operator tried all he could, but the 8GB project simply wasnโ€™t getting transferred to the 32 GB pen drive.

The main editor had by then left for a pre-scheduled holiday (another pitfall of our business).

After struggling for a while, the operator called the owner of the Studio. He informed us โ€“ โ€œYou will need to convert your pen drive to NTFS format.โ€

He tried converting the pen drive to NTFS on his laptop. After about 15 minutes, the capacity of my pen drive was reduced to 4 MB.

From 32 GB to 4 MB. The Studio owner then said, there was a problem with my pen drive and handed it back to me.

Now this is a huge stalemate, because we cannot buy new hard drives or new anything at the drop of a hat.

But it does not help to be flustered.

So we went to my office 10 minutes away, and searched โ€˜How to restore pen drive to original capacityโ€™ on youtube.

Lo and behold. Crystal clear directions to restore the pen drive to its original capacity of 32 GB.

In about half an hour, I was back to the Studio and on this occasion, the 8 GB project successfully transferred into the 32 GB pen drive.

Oh the joys of this business.

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