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  • FCP 5 wont start

    Posted by Quinn Pohl on May 27, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    Hi all. My FCP 5 has been working fine until now. I started my mac (powermac G5)and now when I try to launch FCP it shows the white load up screen and then just disappears as if I’d never opened it!! Any thoughts anyone??? It is a retail version, I’ve tried reinstalling it and nothing has changed. This is really frustrating, it just stopped working overnight. PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP??

    Quinn Pohl replied 18 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Zane Barker

    May 28, 2008 at 3:34 am

    Try trashing your preference files.

    If you are not sure how to do that do a quick search of the forums, and there will be a plenty of threads about how to do it.

    There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
    Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

  • Quinn Pohl

    June 2, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    Thanks very much for this! It was my user preferences. Some how they got corrupted (all I did was shut down!). So I put another profile that was already existing on my Mac into the Shared user folder and things were (just about) ok. I just had to move a few files around but luckily nothing was lost and everything works again, for now at least. Thanks very much!

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