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Corrupt FCP file? Won’t open.
Hello all,
I know this question has been posted on the forum in the past, but I have thoroughly searched past postings and tried everything brought up in response, and none of the solutions are working for me.
I have a project that has been sitting on an external hard drive untouched for a few months. I open it up and begin working on the project, but it’s acting a little weird. Eventually I have to force quit FCP and restart the computer. Then when I try to open the project i get “This project is unreadable or may be too new for this version of Final Cut,” even though I was able to open it and work on it a few minutes ago.
I trash the user prefs, verify my disk permissions and back up the whole project. Try launching again (from original & backup), same error message. I move the drive to a different computer, same problem. Just bought the new FCS package, so I take the time to install the latest version of the suite and run software update. Still I get the same error message upon launching.
At this point I moved to the forums and did some reading up. Tried the following recommendations from Creative Cow users: Duplicated the file, renamed it & tried opening the copy. Deleted the render files. Unmounted the scratch disks. Checked read & write permissions for the project, the folder & the drive. I’m still getting the same error message.
Obviously my FCP file is corrupted. I checked back in the autosave vaults and there’s nothing new enough to be hugely helpful. Is there any way to save this project file?
Thanks in advance.
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It sounds like you’ve done your homework and I really don’t have much to offer but this. I had this problem about a year ago and found that the only way I could get a particular project to open was launch it on the oldest system we had (legacy G5). It was an old project and for some reason it would not open on a newer version of FCP. If you DO get the project open. Immediately create a new project, drag everything from the old project into the new project and save it. That project (at least for me) then would open in newer versions of FCP. Good luck.
FCP Studio 2
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Hi,
You have tried allot!-)what is the error text?
version of fcp it was saved with?once this happened to me; corrupt projectfile,
I tried to compress it (stuffit) and emailed it to someone with same version of fcp as me. And it worked!worth a try?
email it to me if you like.
I have 5.1.2 on ppc and 7.0 on intel.good luck!
Andreas
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