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FCP file will not open
I installed a new external hard drive on my Apple G5. I took a FCP file from another external hard drive and pulled it on the desktop. Then, I pulled the file on the new hard drive. Unfortunately, I can not open this file on either drive. I get the error message: “General Error”. Please help because I have weeks of work into this project.
Thanks!
Bill Straub
William F. Straub
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What kinds of hard drives, how are they formatted, and what kind of FCP file?
You should run your FCP Project file from your internal boot drive (unless you use a SAN, which it doesn’t sound like you are doing…)
If they are firewire drives, know that Apple doesn’t approve the use of FW drives for media storage. It works for some, but not reliably for all. If they are USB drives, that may be your problem. USB 2.0 isn’t fast enough.
You should also reformat any new drive using the Apple Disk Utility, regardless if it comes out of the box saying it’s formatted OS X Extended.
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