Can’t recover FCP when I hide it

[David Roth weiss]

What happens if you go Command + Tab and select FCP???

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[Paul Campbell]

Hi, David. Same thing. I can toggle to FCP, but selecting it still does nothing. I’ve gotten very used to saving my work every 5 minutes since this problem started. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to do a hard reboot so I can get back to my FCP!

[John Steventon]

Is it maybe a spaces thing? I know that sometimes throws me – though most of the time spaces will auto-flick to the one I’ve set up for that app – but sometimes I’ll recover a hidden one, and when I recover it, it’ll happily open into its correct space, but I’m still in another one – and need to manually select the right one.

Unlikely to be the answer, but in case it helps get you any further with the problem.

John

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[Jason Twite]

Same problem here from time to time. Tried to figure out a pattern, but it hasn’t happened in a month or so to me. I swear its something with file types in your current project. I’ve had FCP freak out and crash simply because a WMV file was on the desktop. Just ridiculous. I’ve searched for a end all fix to this hiding problem, but nothing so far.

[Dennis Leppell]

had something like this happen about a year ago w/ DVD SP. Don’t remember how it got fixed. As an alternative, though, I map my expose keys to the command, option, and control on the right, so if I need something on my desktop, I just fly out the windows, click+hold, and fly the windows back in.

[Jason Diebler]

I think John is right. I experience that phenomenon quite a bit too, & in my case it’s definitely attributable to “Spaces”… The Apple+Tab doesn’t ever work, but if I hit F-13, I can get back where I need to be.

“The deepest blues are black” – Foo Fighters
(this doesn’t help me when I’m chroma keying!)

[David Bogie]

F8 will display Spaces, too.

bogiesan

[Paul Campbell]

Wow! Look at all these posts. Sorry for the late reply, everyone. I normally don’t check until I get home. Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Paul

[Shawn Marshall]

I’ve been using 6.0.5 for months now and this just started happening to me, too. I hide it, and then I can’t get it back no matter what I do, and I end up having to force quit the program. I don’t have Spaces activated because it didn’t work very well for me (OS 10.5.5)

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

[Thomas Berglund]

I had the exact same problem. It turned out to be a WMV file. Once I removed the WMV file from the FCP project, the project file size shrunk from 228MB to 1MB, and I have not had issues getting Final Cut Pro back after hiding it since.