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FCPX – Computer crashed, now event is gone
I’m running FCPX 10.2.3 on a MacBook Pro with OS 10.6.8. I edited a project and I chose to export it as a prores file, and after several minutes my computer crashed and restarted itself and now the event that had the project is gone from my library. I tried to see if it was in the backup libraries, but it’s not there either. Is there some other area where my event and project are stored? Is it possible that my computer crashing and restarting itself deleted the event and project?
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[Bobby Hall] “Is it possible that my computer crashing and restarting itself deleted the event and project?”
It’s possible, but if the event and project are truly gone you are likely missing other things that you haven’t noticed yet.
Questions:
– Are you editing on your boot drive, or an external?
– Any reason you’re so far back in OS?
– Was it a kernel panic, or some other situation?Doug Metz
Anode
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The project was on the boot drive. Since the crash, I have started storing projects on an external hard drive,since I doubt the computer crashing would affect the external drive.
I’m letting my girlfriend use my old MacBook Pro to edit videos, and I had an older copy of FCPX saved, so I put it on that MacBook because it was compatible with the older OS.
I’m not sure if it was a kernal panic. I’m not familiar with that. I believe when it restarted it said, “Your computer was restarted because of a problem.”
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My guess would be that the database became corrupt when the crash happened and has forgotten about the event itself.
This is a dangerous suggestion, but have you opened the Library package to see if your event and project are still in there? If they are you could try a few things to get it back.
Remember this is dangerous so I suggest duplicating your full library then messing around inside the duplicate. For instance you could first open the duplicate and try creating a new event with a new name. Then close X, open the package and move the project folder into the new event folder. Maybe it will show up?
Chad Greene : Mahoney Media : Minneapolis, Minnesota : 2×2.66 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon, 12GB Ram, OS 10.11 FCPX, Kona-LHi
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[Bobby Hall] “The project was on the boot drive. Since the crash, I have started storing projects on an external hard drive,since I doubt the computer crashing would affect the external drive.”
Good call on moving to external. I was asking this specifically to see how much free space you’ve got. Too little space could cause unseen system issues if your host application isn’t checking before writing.
Your computer crashing could still affect your external drive, particularly if it’s writing to the device at the time.
[Bobby Hall] “I’m not sure if it was a kernal panic. I’m not familiar with that. I believe when it restarted it said, “Your computer was restarted because of a problem.””
Have a look here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT200553Doug Metz
Anode
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Yeah, I looked inside the library and the event and project associated with it were gone. So most likely the crash destroyed it.
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Bummer.
Chad Greene : Mahoney Media : Minneapolis, Minnesota : 2×2.66 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon, 12GB Ram, OS 10.11 FCPX, Kona-LHi
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