• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Saving error = “File error: Unknown file”

  Posted by Scott on September 20, 2006 at 9:04 pm

  When attempting to save my FCP project, am getting a dialog box that simply says,

  “File error: Unknown file”

  That’s all it says, no more details, just an ok button to close the dialog box.

  Any idea what is going on here?

  My project does contain a photoshop (psd) file in the browser window. Otherwise, just clips and sequences.

  I am worried that my project is not being saved; I also tried saving as… but it results in same error.

  Thanks for the help!

  Juan Carlos aguirre replied 19 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Zak Mussig

  September 21, 2006 at 3:38 pm

  Scott,

  Try a Save As in a different location. Are you, per chance, trying to save your project to a firewire drive? Almost everything I do is on firewire 800 drives (including the project files). I have this issue from time to time. This is one reason it’s a bad idea to keep your project file on a firewire drive. I make a lot of backups, and I often just copy the project file to system drive, do my work, and copy it back when I’m done to keep everything portable.

  If you just can’t save, you could export to xml (with your browser selected) and reimport that as a new project.

  Hope that helps,
  Zak
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  Juan Carlos aguirre

  September 30, 2006 at 9:57 pm

  Hi Guys..

  I have the same problem almost every day.. and it’s really wired, This is what I have.
  There are 3 different bays working all same setup and software latest versions of all OS, FCP and more, I have I Xserve for share working files where, and also a XserveRaid where a have my media, render files and auto save vault

  Most of the time every morning all is working fine, I can open, save and autosave my projects to the server from all 3 stations, but magically afternoon, the problems start, mean I have the Unknown File error while saving, and also the kind of same error while auto save.

  The way to solve it it

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