• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Final Cut 7.0.3 won’t open

  Posted by Jeff Walters on August 9, 2011 at 6:47 pm

  I’m a bit of an expert at troubleshooting FCP, but maybe not so much…
  FCP won’t open. Was working perfectly yesterday. Only thing was I did a software update last night and it installed some HP printer drivers – I wouldn’t think this would be the cause?

  Two month old 6 core Mac Pro with all software updates.
  Done all the typical stuff: Trashed prefs, uninstalled/reinstalled FCP. Tried without the ProKit update from 7.0 to 7.0.3. Ran Disk Warrior on main drive + secondarys. Unplugged drives.
  One thing that is not showing up in the User>Library is com.apple.finalcutpro.plist – why would this be missing?

  There was a Apple bulletin – “FCP won’t open after a software update”
  They instructed to open the Terminal, type “sudo update_prebinding -root / -force” Press Return, Enter Password when prompted. It won’t let me enter anything – I press a key and nothing happens.

  The trying to open, the opening FCP splash screen comes up, and when it gets to around 70% RT it freezes.

  Help! On a deadline.

  Help.

  James Hall replied 14 years ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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  Everest Mokaeff

  August 9, 2011 at 7:16 pm

  Do you have FCPX, Compressor 4, or Motion 5 on start up disk? Try to use FCS remover to get rid of fcs3 and reinstall it all over. I too downloaded upgraded hp software – it works just fine.

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  Jeff Walters

  August 9, 2011 at 7:33 pm

  I used uninstaller then reinstalled – did not fix the problem.
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  Michiel Willemse

  June 15, 2012 at 9:57 am

  I’ve had the exact same problem. What I did to solve it was:

  – Go to your home folder
  – Go to library
  – Go to preferences
  – Drag the folder ‘Final Cut Pro User Data’ to your desktop

  Start again and for me it worked. Did not really care about the pref’s so I didn’t try putting some back to see where it crashes.

  Cheers and good luck!
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  Jacob Reyes

  July 10, 2012 at 10:06 pm

  Thank You Michiel. Your comment helped out.
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  James Hall

  August 22, 2012 at 11:10 pm

  I’m having the same problem as the guy who started this thread but this answer didn’t fix it. I don’t even have a folder “Final Cut Pro User Data. I think because i uninstalled and re installed final cut it hasn’t created the folder or the “com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist”. What can I do to try and fix this problem?

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