Events and Projects Librarys Missing in FCPX (but folders and videos in finder exist)

[Nick Toth]

Need more info on your setup. If you had a “solution” where re-booting several times caused the missing files to show up it sounds more like a hard drive issue. Have you run disk first aid, repaired permissions, deleted preferences etc.? Based on my experience with FCP X what you are describing sounds like something other than an FCP problem.

NT

[Eugeny Korkhin]

FCPX may treat your hard drive as a card from a camera if you have “camera related” folders (i.e. DCIM) on your drive. Check this thread for more info:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3279953?start=0&tstart=0

[Mitch Ives]

[Eugeny Korkhin] “FCPX may treat your hard drive as a card from a camera if you have “camera related” folders (i.e. DCIM) on your drive. Check this thread for more info:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3279953?start=0&tstart=0“

Thanks for the link… this is important info. So basically you can never have any files with the words “movie”, “video” or “Final” in them? All I can say is how did this get by the final testers?

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com

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[John Smith]

I have 1864 files with the word FINAL in it according to Finder.
There is no way I can change all of these to NOT have the word FINAL in them.
Although I DID create a wav, aif and mp3 with the word final in it recently, but Ive already used this wav in a FCPX movie and it worked ok.

Ive tried changing the names of SOME of the most recent files to not have the word FINAL in them, but FCPX still doesnt show up any events or projects (even thought they DO exist in their folders).

MOVIE – Dont even go there 🙂
VIDEO – Again, dont even go there 🙂

I DID have an SD card connected to the Mac with a DCIM folder containing images, which I ejected. I also searched the system for DCIM and found nothing.
but it still doesnt show up any events or projects (even thought they DO exist in their folders).

Ive been going through Disk Utility, Verifying and Repairing Disk Permissions.
REPAIR DISK is always greyed out though.

Still nothing.

[John Smith]

Ive also just booted up with the OSX disc and REPAIRED then system.
But its still not showing up events and librarys

[Eugeny Korkhin]

I never had this problem by myself, so I can only guess. But it seems to me that it relates to folder names, not files. And not only DCIM folder may cause trouble, but other camera-specific names as well.
That is a bug. No doubt. But Apple can call it a feature:)

[John Smith]

More updating.

I tried the hide/move events/projects files into new folder
as explained here

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4740

and it STILL doesnt work.

I even tried it with individual events projects, but nothing 🙁

[Jeremy Garchow]

Have you tried moving the events/project to an external drive?

[Bill Davis]

If I read all the threads correctly, it seems this isn’t actually a Final Cut Pro issue so much as an underliing Unix file tree issue.

It starts with the poor practice of doing FINDER copies of card data that creates essentially false directory tree branches that X “thinks” leads to cards – but don’t.

How can the program tell whether a particular DCIM file is a proper camera clip or a finder tag for an asset collection? My brain can supply context based on where amongst the thousands of possibilities I put it – but I don’t think the computer’s directory is going to parse that.

I”m also suspect since thee original posts about this were from September, and if this was persistent and universal, I think we would have seen a LOT more squawking about this – since tagging a clip as a FINAL has got to be a pretty universal convention and I’ve done it quite a bit myself without any hassles.

Bottom line. Archives and/or Disk Images are your friend, since it appears that FCP-X never gets confused no matter how many of them are on a hard drive and how many you open to re-populate your projects. They just work and simultaneously keep all the directory structure info in precisely the same state it was when the card came out of the camera.

FWIW.

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[John Smith]

Hi Bill
Thanks for your comments but I am still looking for a solution to this problem. Even if this is an issue with my system and not with Final Cut Pro.
Out of EVERY app I have this is the only app that I am experiencing any problems with. This is why I am calling it a FCPX fault.