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FCP dead
hello… i am REALLY hoping someone can get me out of this one!
i recently upgraded to FC studio 5.1, upgraded Black Magic Decklink driver to 5.7.2, upgraded QT to 7.1.3.
(MAC G5 dual processor OSX 10.4.8)the system has been running ok for a couple of days, except for some weird file connections when relinking media within a project.
apart from this all ok.i just tried to open FC Studio, and shortly after it started reloading…. it just stopped loading. now i cant open the application at all, from either a project, or directly out of the applications folder. i was using the software not more than 5mins ago and it was fine.
i have rebooted. no change. this is a bit scarey? no?
reinstall? what’s stopping this from happening again?
(dont know whether this is relevent: today i accidently set my OS hard drive as my scratch target. i changed this to my external Sanman drive this afternoon. i deleted the scratch files that had already accumulated on my OS drive: render files, thumbnail and waveform cache files… maybe FCP is trying to find something that i have deleted?… this would be weird though, because i opened a project successfully after i had dumped these files. i did also get a warning saying that FCP couldnt locate my scratch target… i reselected it without a problem and continued. no problems after this until i quite FCP and then tried to reopen.)
thanks in anticipation..
alex
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3 Replies
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Download and run FCP Rescue…click on TRASH. This will trash three preference files.
See if that works.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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thank you Shane.
sorted. just for future reference, what was the problem and how did this software sort it out? (i dont need you to write me a manual, but i like to know basically what the issue is, so im not just pressing buttons and hoping it all comes together in the end. my drives have had a lot of media running over them in the last 2 years… maybe i need to overhaul?)
thanks again..
alex
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It trashes three FCP preference files that might have gotten corrupted. When FCP was launched it created fresh ones.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net
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