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FCP 5 frustration
I’ve been experiencing a bit of a bother every time I plug in my external Lacie hard drive and start FCP 5 HD. A while back, I was given some project footage on a Lacie 320 gb external hard drive. It turned out that the audio files had been captured to a different drive, a drive that I didn’t have, so when I tried to open up any of the projects on the hard drive, I would be constantly stopped and told that there was a file missing and it was searching for movie data, etc etc. There were tons of files so it would take forever to get past all of these dialog boxes, stopping and cancelling each as they came up. Annoying, but I could understand what was happening.
Now, any time I have that same lacie hard drive turned on, if I try to launch FCP, in hopes of creating a new project, FCP insists on searching for these files all over again. I have created new sequences and saved them, with no reference to these old files but it always wants to find them. If I turn off the lacie, FCP starts right up with a fresh, blank project.
How can I clear out any reference to these orphaned files that I don’t have and don’t need for new projects, I just need the storage space on the lacie drive.
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
FCP 5HD
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4 gb memory
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6 Replies
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could you reformat the drive?
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When you get the dialog to “Reconnect” media after it does the search, do you tell FCP to Forget the files?
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I don’t get that dilog to “reconnect”. I don’t understand why FCP is looking for media that’s not in the project, just because it’s on the drive.
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reformat? I’d like to know why FCP is doing this first so I can address it if it happens again.
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Hi Gus,
sorry, I wasn’t meaning to be flippant. it does sound like a very strange situation ….
you’re saying that FCP works just fine, launching and quiting the app, opening, closing and working on multiple projets; but when you plug-in this particular drive, regardless of the project thats open, then FCP starts searching for files? or at least, if you launch FCP with this drive plugged in, then it immediately starts searching for these phantom files? do you have your preferences set to reopen last project on application launch? but anyway, it doesn’t first tell you which files are missing, and ask you to reconnect and THEN start searching ??
well, certainly it doesn’t sound like any kind of ‘normal’ issue, which makes it extermely difficult for others to diagnose ‘remotely’ as it were. and I guess what I’m saying is, that in these instances, its often less important to know exactly what got screwed up, and why, in favour of just fixing the problem.
i’d have to say, i’m not convinced that reformating the drive will necessarily fix the problem. it seems unlikely that there is anything on the drive that is indentifying itself to FCP and causing this to happen. its just maybe worth a try.
another course of action would be the usual FCP preference trashing routine … or even a full reinstall of FCP?good luck
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Open a new sequence. Close the offending one. Save all. Now quit and start up FCP again. If it takes forever looking at this drive then there is something seriously wrong. I doubt it has anything to do with FCP. More the drive is gone skewif. Run your disk utilities on it.
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