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FCP crashes on startup
We recently updated to Final Cut Studio 2 on our dual G-5. Final Cut Pro starts up fine on the login that we used to install the update. However, it crashes before it finishes starting up on a different user login. Does anyone know where I should look to see what might be causing the problem? On the splash screen, it gets past the AE plugins and gets just past where it says “Loading master templates”- then it crashes. I’ve tried repairing permissions and I’ve tried trashing the fcp preferences.
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I struggled with this exact same problem for about 10 hours last weekend, and tried the same fixes you’ve suggested.
In the end, the only solution that worked was to create a new user, login to that user before launching FCP, then, once it launched successfully, re-build all my preferences while logged in with the new User ID.
The problem with this is twofold: First, my administrator User settings have to be retained to allow authorization of any higher level functions for the OS, even though I can’t launch FCP using that identity; and Second, I can’t retrieve anything stored in the documents folder for the administrator’s “user” when I’m logged in using the “new” identity.
So I suggest moving all relevant files into an area of your hard drive that is publicly accessible, then creating a new user and working from that.
If anyone knows how to “repair” a User ID that FCP doesn’t like, I’d love to find out!
Thanks for posting this.
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I solved my problem. The first time, I was looking in my preferences folder on the root drive by mistake. This time, I looked under my user name- user/Library/Pref/Final Cut Pro user data. I deleted the files called Final Cut Pro 5 prefs, Final Cut Pro 6 prefs, Obj cache, and Prof cache. After that, FCP started up normally.
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For some reason this doesn’t work for me. I signed in to the troublesome User ID, followed the steps you outlined (well, since I am using 5.1.4 there were slightly fewer files) and then relaunched. FCP made it past the AE stuff, and eventually asked me what easy setup I wanted. But once I selected, it went back to that old familiar “unexpectedly quit” screen with the three choices to “relaunch” “report” and something else.
When I log into my alternative User ID it still launches just fine.
Anyway, anyone who knows what to do with an Administrator ID you can’t erase because the OS needs it, but with which you cannot launch FCP, please let me know! My sad, sneaking suspicion is that I have to wipe the main harddrive and do a clean install of both the OS and FCP.
Anyone who thinks this is overkill please weigh in!
Thanks.
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