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Anyone seen this issue ?
Hello all,
Quite annoying issue Im having: FCP seems to beachball and lock up when any web browser is running. As soon as I close it, FCP resumes quite happily.
Is it a memory issue ? Nothng else is open, you would think a Mac Pro with 12gb of ram could handle two programs open at once. Im running snow leopard currently.
Any thoughts would be appreciated !
James Mortner
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4 Replies
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James, when is the last time you performed a clean install on your startup disk? If you’ve not done that in a while, it’s likely time. What you see isn’t a bug in the software or we’d all be seeing it…
Jerry
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Around 6 months ago ? Strangely this started happening after the install…
Perhaps its time to do another one 🙁
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Could sure be an install gone wonky… Not common, but not unheard of either. Pretty much it’s best practice to rebuild a startup disk from the ground up any time there’s an upgrade from one OS to another (aka Leopard to Snow Leopard) and any time there’s a new version of FCS (FCS 2 to FCS (2009). About the only time it’s not necessary is on a new machine installing Studio on it for the first time.
But doing it clean does really make a difference in my experience. We do this every 6 months at the 75 edit bay school I teach, and it’s paid off in extremely stable setups. I don’t think a single user setup needs to do this as often per se, but only when things happen as described above.
Jerry
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Sounds totally plausible, thanks very much for your advice !
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