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Anyone ever see this error message?
FCX has been very very very flakey today. Yesterday I got that strange red box on my timeline. Today, the interface isn’t editing the way I’m telling it to. I try to make an edit with the D key, and it places the clip in a different place than I have selected. The same thing happens when I try to OPT-CMD-DOWN to place a connected clip into the primary storyline.
Now I get this.
I selected one video clip and three audio clips and hit “copy”. All of these clips are in my primary storyline. I’m looking at the timeline index to make sure I only have these four clips selected. Why is it telling me that I have clips outside the primary storyline?
I’m going to try trashing my preferences. There are 46 com.apple.FinalCut.plist files in my preferences. What’s that.
Anyone got a clue what this is about?
Thanks.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Hmmmm…
Nuked the preferences (all 46 of them) and it seems to be editing alright now.
Strange.
I still don’t quite get that error.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
46 preference files? They couldn’t be called the same thing.
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Well, yeah, sort of.
They all were com.apple.FinalCut.plist
But then they had a suffix of 7 characters of alphanumeric gibberish. For some reason there were a large number of them. I noticed the same with itunes, quicktime x, and apple apps.
I don’t understand why there would be many copies of the preference files, unless perhaps every time the app crashed, it left a copy of the preferences. 47 might be how many times it’s crashed on me. Could be more. I never kept count.
I wonder if everyone else has a large number of copies of apple preferences for a number of these apps.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
[Mark Morache] “I wonder if everyone else has a large number of copies of apple preferences for a number of these apps.”
I have noticed it with QT in the past. Every time a qt movie was opened, it would cache a new pref file.
Never figured it out.
First time I found them, there were a ton in there. You can watch it happen if you leave the folder open.
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