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A Final Cut Pro X Library seems to be corrupted. Can it be repaired?
I was working on a project today and for some reason Final Cut Pro X crashed. When I reopened Final Cut Pro X, my library reopened, but it reopened without any events or media, and no projects. Where there is usually an “Event icon” (the purple Icon with a white star) on the Library Browser, now it shows an expandable folder (with an arrow you can click on) with no contents inside. Upon closer inspection of the Library File (‘Show Package Contents”), it shows all of the correct folders and files to make up all of the Events and Projects, but it will not open in FCPX correctly. I have an old backup of my library, but it does not have any of the numerous changes I have made over the past week to the project, so I still have all of my media secure, I just done want to lose my work. I also turned off library backups when I noticed that backups of all of the media was filling up my boot drive.
Any ideas on how to repair the database files that seem to be corrupted?
FYI, I am using Final Cut Pro X 10.1.1 on an OS X Mavericks Mac Pro.
Thanks for any help.
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What happens if you select the library in Finder and select “Show Package Contents”? Is anything there?
Tim
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Tim Jones
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Yes, as I said originally, showing the contents of the library file reveals a normal looking directory structure, complete with a “flexolibrary” file and a “currentversion” file in each project folder. It just seems to not work and open right for some reason. The old backup, as well as other libraries seen to open up normally.
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Oh my gosh! I was able to get it working! What I eventually had to do was a combination of the suggestions mentioned here. Here is what I did:
1. After much exploring inside the library file (right click-then “Show Package Contents”), I noticed that inside the non-working library there was a second “CurrentVersion.fcpevent” file called “CurrentVersion.fcpevent-journal” (the same except it ended in “journal”). I followed one if the suggestions on this post. Made sure FCPX was closed. Then I copied a backup to my desktop and then trashed this file.
2. Then I followed another suggestion from the replies to this post and I trashed the “CurrentVersion.flexolibrary” file.
3. Then I emptied the trash bin.
The combination of these 3 steps allowed my library to fire back up when I restarted FCPX! I’m still trying to see how many of my recent changes to the project were saved.
I will definitely look into making the auto backup feature of 10.1.1 work, but on another drive so that my boot drive does not fill up so fast!
Thanks for all your help! I really thought I was screwed and that I would have to recreate the project! But this worked!!!!!
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I had this happen and I couldn’t fix it. FCPX is making me very nervous at the moment, looking forward to the next update!
Steve Connor
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I agree. It makes me very nervous too. Fortunately, every issue I have had has always been repairable. I’m a little nervous about updates with FCPX as well, because while the updates may patch previous problems, each update seems to come with its own set of new bugs. But I am appreciative of the additional features that they keep adding. I am a fairly new editor that started with FCPX. I guess I am going with FCPX for the long haul because I am really not in the position to have the time to learn another editor right now. Plus, for me, the features are good and it works great for me 99% of the time. Thanks!
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[Patrick Fogle] “I will definitely look into making the auto backup feature of 10.1.1 work, but on another drive so that my boot drive does not fill up so fast! “
The backup files are very small. They contain no media, render, or other files.
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Well, that sounds good. I do have a question though. I turned on backups and chose a folder on another drive, but it has not started backing anything up over the past 2 hours. Any idea on how to get this to start backing up? I restarted FCPX. It is 10.1.1.
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It’s an automatic process.
Quitting and re opening usually forces a backup.
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The auto-backup feature executes every 15 minutes, but only if something has been modified…
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!
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