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FCP acting wacky – Reinstall advice
Hi,
I’m getting all sorts of crashes and projects not opening and all sorts of other weirdness going on.
I’m thinking that I should completely remove FCP and all it’s components and then reinstall the suite.
Here is the question:
I don’t have 3-4 hours straight that I can afford the downtime.
Do you think it’s ok to just install FCP and the other apps first – and then at a later date, install the media [for Motion & Soundtrack Pro, etc]Also, I have heard that you can save considerable time by installing from Disk Images instead of directly from the DVDs. Any truth to that ‘rumor’ and is it recommended?
Thanks,
Wayne
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7 Replies
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Hi Waine,
If your problems are on the system, you get nothing re-installing FC.
Repair permissions and re-build directories with Diskwarrior or TechTools may fix all those problems.
rafael -
Hi Rafael,
Thanks for the reply.
Now this is an area that I’m not too familiar with.
I have Disk Warrior – I recall that I have to boot up with a Boot DVD or something to clean
out the boot drive, is that correct?I’ll Google for answers but if you have any suggestions I’d appreciate it.
Tx,
Wayne
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Create a new admin user first.
Problem persists?
Now you know if it’s user library or system library related.No 3th party soft and plugins that can cause it?
No?Remove Final Cut Studio with FCS Remover. ALL of it.
Just install FCP without any Soundtrack Pro libraries.Next step.
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[Wayne Marx] “I have Disk Warrior – I recall that I have to boot up with a Boot DVD or something to clean
out the boot drive, is that correct?”
Right.
I run it from an external HD; is faster.
Run it in all your HD.
Run it a couple of times if necessary.
rafael
PS: Yesterday I made a clean/step-by-step installing of everything on a brand new MBP.
After FCS was installed, Diskwarrior shown a “39% of items out of order”.
rafael -
Thanks for the feedback Gents,
I appreciate the input.
Wayne
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This may have been mentioned…but I didn’t see it.
I don’t EVER install Final Cut Studio from the discs. Make disc images of each disc, save to portable drive…then mount all images and run installer. It will install over lunch. Creating the disc images does take some time, but it can run in the background and you don’t have to stop using FCP while your OS makes the image.
-Jason
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I also have disk images. Makes things much faster.
That being said, if you just install the apps only (and not the media) from DVD the install goes very fast. No reason to reinstall that media. Make sure to software update multiple times after installing the apps to get all the ProApps updates.
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