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  • Apple Mac pro very slow while exporting

    Posted by Segun Olorunnisomo on February 25, 2015 at 11:51 am

    Hello, I have been using my Apple Mac (16g ram and 3tb harddrive) to export my project on FCP for more than a year now and it’s usually takes 20mins to export each project but since yesterday the system has spent an average of 2 hours to export the same project. This is really affecting my work as am not sure I would meet my deadline.
    I have removed all the external hard drives and even restarted the computer but it’s still not working.
    what do I do?

    Mark Suszko replied 11 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Mark Suszko

    February 25, 2015 at 5:23 pm

    trash prefs, run disk utilty to scan your drives for corruption or other probs. Check your RAM.

    Does the boot drive have enough free space to handle the computations? As a rule of thumb, 15-25% of the boot drive needs to be empty to leave room for temp files.

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