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Two very helpful pieces of info that I learned in the past 24 hours:

1. Western Digital drives are preformatted with NTFS.  In order to install them on an Airport Extreme, you must first reformat them so they are writable by your mac clients.  Use Journaled (Extended).
   • A side note: Time Machine actually WILL work on the airport shared drive.
2. In Autodesk Maya, if you want to load an image sequence, you need to insure that it’s naming convention follows this rule: [filename].####.[extension]
   • If you use a standard naming convention like [filename]_####.[extension], it will pretend to work but give errors like:

//"Warning: Texture file /Volumes/AQCC/video/act04Tiff/act04_00000.tif doesn't exist, node file1 //

1. • This is arcane knowledge that took me hours to figure out.  Use it wisely.
   • An appropriate filename example would be: “act04.0003.tif“