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Bet you haven’t seen this alert…
I’m away from my work computer but the alert (and it’s all my fault) appears on launch of FCPX with no events or projects and says something to the effect that the SAN is in use by somebody else. It’s referring to my boot drive. When dismissed, the alert appears again for each of my remaining three drives. Trashing prefs doesn’t help. FCPX relaunch doesn’t help. Computer re-booting will bring everything back but on Quit I have to force-quit FCPX and then we’re back to those busy SAN alerts until the machine is rebooted.
This is my fault. I take the hit for this upfront. I just have to get myself out of it somehow.
It came about when my video drive became full point while rendering a project. I was scared of using the Move function knowing that the original would be deleted. I had put way too much work into the project.
So I did a Finder copy of the Events folder to the new video drive and launched FCPX. Fine except that the projects were still trying to render to the full drive. Quit FCPX and did a Finder copy of the Projects folder. The projects on the new video drive appeared showed missing media. I told each project that I had moved to now reference the Event on the new video drive and all media reappeared.
Fine except the projects were STILL trying to render to the full drive!
From here, I’m not sure what happened. After relaunching again it seemed to be rendering to the new drive but was agonizingly slow. I started deleting render files off the full drive and the rendering SEEMED to go faster and I got my project out the door. But its one of eight.
Now, I’m at the point where I have for force-quit FCPX, reboot the machine to clear the SAN Busy alert, work (with rendering still possibly going to the wrong drive) and force-quit on shutdown only to get the SAN Busy alert again next time.
Of course I’ve trashed preferences. I would like to learn how to get out of this mess and how to more properly deal with a full drive next time. Maybe I need to learn to trust the Move operation.
Don Smith
NewsVideo.com
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2 Replies
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Actually, the move function is very similar to a verified move. Trust it. It won’t delete anything until it has been moved and verified.
Now, on to the problem.
Are you connected to a SAN?
You can’t have two of the same events open, fcp gets confused.
You need to move the events/projects out of the Final Cut Events/Projects folder on your “full” drive (with fcp quit of course) then relaunch fcp.
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No, not connected to a SAN but the alert calls each of the drives within my MacPro a ‘SAN’.
I can see that having two Events named the same could cause confusion. I thought I had moved the original Event and Projects out of the full drive with Event X but will check that when I return to that computer on Monday.
Thank you very much for the good ideas.
Don Smith
NewsVideo.com
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