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

[John Smith]

“Yes although as stated sometimes it take a few restarts of FCPX to get them all to appear.”

I would try deleting your render and cache files with your external drive disconnected and FCPX shut down.

Not sure what you mean here, I’m talking about the events/projects on the EXTERNAL hard drive here appearing after a few restarts of FCPX, so I cant delete the render/cache files on the EXTERNAL hard drive without having it connected?

Your media and databases seem to be fine as they do work.

Your drive/system on the other hand seems to be having some issues as the events on the external work.

Correct.

When you load the external events, are the Events on your internal “hidden”?

Yes, events/projects on INTERNAL are always hidden from FCPX as to whether I have the External Hdrive plugged in or not. I have stated this previously.

Are there any background processes running?

No I am running ONLY FCPX

[Jeremy Garchow]

[John Smith] “When you load the external events, are the Events on your internal “hidden”?

Yes, events/projects on INTERNAL are always hidden from FCPX as to whether I have the External Hdrive plugged in or not. I have stated this previously.”

But did you follow my advice and move them OUT of the Final Cut Pro Events/Projects folders?

[John Smith] “Are there any background processes running?

No I am running ONLY FCPX”

Sorry, i should have been more specific. When you open FCPX, click on the little render wheel next to the tc readout. It should open the background process display. Is anything running?

[John Smith]

“When you load the external events, are the Events on your internal “hidden”?
Yes, events/projects on INTERNAL are always hidden from FCPX as to whether I have the External Hdrive plugged in or not. I have stated this previously.”

But did you follow my advice and move them OUT of the Final Cut Pro Events/Projects folders?

Yes, as stated in my post Jan 6, 2012 at 3:40:26 pm

“Are there any background processes running?
No I am running ONLY FCPX”

Sorry, i should have been more specific. When you open FCPX, click on the little render wheel next to the tc readout. It should open the background process display. Is anything running?

No, there is no background processing taking place.
but then again why would there be if FCPX is not showing any Events/Projects (without the external hard drive plugged in)

Do you have any other suggestions? No offense intended to you (You have been very helpful indeed), but I just feel like we’re going round in circles now.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[John Smith] “But did you follow my advice and move them OUT of the Final Cut Pro Events/Projects folders?

Yes, as stated in my post Jan 6, 2012 at 3:40:26 pm”

Your last repsonse was confusing. I undertand that FCPX can’t see them, but that different from hiding them from FCPX.

“Yes, events/projects on INTERNAL are always hidden from FCPX as to whether I have the External Hdrive plugged in or not. I have stated this previously.”

[John Smith] “No, there is no background processing taking place.
but then again why would there be if FCPX is not showing any Events/Projects (without the external hard drive plugged in)”

Because crazy things happen. When moving things in FCPX, there’s times where clips and footage doesn’t show up until FCPX is done processing them.

[John Smith] “Do you have any other suggestions? No offense intended to you (You have been very helpful indeed), but I just feel like we’re going round in circles now.”

Check the permissions on your Final Cut Events/Projects folder. (This is different from repair permissions)

To check the permissions, you click on the folder and get info (command-i). Look down at the bottom and twril down the “Sharing and Permissions” section. What do you see?

I maintain that you have more of a system problem and not an FCPX problem as your database is in tact.

I cannot see your system, so I can only speculate. Sorry if this free help is no good to you. At least we figured out your Events/Proejcts are in tact.

Jeremy

[John Smith]

To check the permissions, you click on the folder and get info (command-i). Look down at the bottom and twril down the “Sharing and Permissions” section. What do you see?

I have already done this and set them all to read and write privilege

[Shane Stokes]

Hi John, just wondering if you ever got this sorted out? I’m having the same problem with FCP X 10.0.3. A previous installation of FCP 10 (original version) works fine in this regard. I’m completely stumped, and really frustrated…

Thanks, Shane

[John Smith]

Hi
I managed to get this to work by having all of the projects and events on a separate external hard drive (Which I think I formatted in Mac OS Extended).
Sorry if this isnt the answer your looking for, but its the way I got around it.
Plus its freed up space on my internal hard drive now as well.

[Ted Hogeman]

Hey, I know it’s been a while on this thread, but I just recently encountered this problem too and I think I figured out a solution:

I rebooted into safe mode (holding down the shift key on startup), then started up FCPX while logged in on safe mode (I don’t know if this is a necessary step, but I tried it just to see). It gave me an error message saying that Final Cut’s OpenGL needs aren’t supported in safe mode, so I restarted the computer normally and all my events and projects are back.

Hope this helps anyone else who has this issue!