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  • Duplicate project as snapshot…has stopped working…arrgh

    Posted by Jim Bachalo on July 27, 2014 at 12:50 pm

    I have a 7 minute project, not overly complex, but not simple either. 4K footage, lots of compound clips, but none nested more than 2 deep.

    Up until recently I was able to duplicate my latest project as snapshot without issues.
    But this morning I see spinning beach ball for a couple minutes, followed by the loading progress indicator and then….nothing! No error message and NO snapshot!

    I am able to duplicate as a regular project without snapshot.

    Could this have something to do with a corrupt library, or perhaps lack of disk space?

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    Jim Bachalo replied 12 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Craig Alan

    July 27, 2014 at 9:30 pm

    make sure nothing is being processed in the b.g. command-9

    easy enough to check your media drive or storage location options and get info in the finder will tell you about remaining space, though a snapshot is a tiny little file. but regardless I would be very careful to not go beyond 80% capacity on any drive.

    a snapshot is treated as an edit. command-z will actually undo it, much to my surprise when i took a snapshot and then undid all things I had done because I wanted to compare where I had been and where i was going.

    worth a try:

    Reset preferences in Final Cut Pro X 10.1.2

    Quit Final Cut Pro X.
    Hold down the Command and Option keys while reopening Final Cut Pro X. A window will appear asking “Do you want to delete preferences?”
    Click Delete Preferences. This command removes the preference files and resets Final Cut Pro X to default settings.

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  • Jim Bachalo

    July 28, 2014 at 2:12 pm

    Thanks. All good tips

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