# Avid Media Composer - Console Commands [[Avid Media Composer|Media Composer]] has a lot of console commands that can do useful things but aren't really that visible of options! Here's what some of them do, and use-cases for using them! You can always get more information by using `Help Commands` in the console. Though that can sometimes be difficult to read. The Avid Console somewhat respects standard terminal basics. So tab-completion exists which is quite handy[^1] ! [^1]: For more info checkout [[Command Line Basics]]. ## WorkgroupOverride > [!TLDR] > Use the command `WorkgroupOverride on` to have your app ignore your production management configuration and work like a regular Media Composer When working in an Interplay or Media Central Production Management environment, the media indexing is handled by the media-indexers. If you want to skip that and return to using local-media management, enable WorkgroupOverride. Just typing `workgroupoverride` will report the current status, and follow it up with an `on` or `off` to toggle the setting. This requires a restart of Media Composer to take effect. These settings are stored in the global state file, so if you wipe out site settings and the state file, you might lose these preferences. OS upgrades, some software upgrades, and software crashes may clear the global state as well. ## Disco > [!TLDR] > This is like WorkgroupOverride, but even more aggressive. There's some other differences. No this isn't about dancing, but it would be a fun easter egg. This setting is for "forced disconnected client mode", for when you **super don't want** a client to connect to things. I've not personally used this, I've just had to disable it from someone turning it on and not realizing it was on. ## All Drives Tells Media Composer to see all drives as media drives, or not. Useful for writing to external drives or network shares that Media Composer ignores by default. This can cause performance issues if the desired storage media is not appropriate for Media Composer.