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FCP General Error remedy
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Well, I certainly learned my lesson and won’t be save as-ing again!
Yep, FPC was quit when I ran rescue.
FCP4
11.8 MBEven my autosave vault files, which are named the name pre-save as, won’t open. Same General Error.
Excuse my novice-ness re. posting – I went to my cPanel, and uploaded the file into my public html folder, planning on giving you the web address. But the file becomes a data/binary file when I do that, opening Excel when downloaded. What am I doing wrong?
(I really appreciate all your help Jeremy!)
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April mentioned in her first post that she can’t get any of the autosaves to boot. I’m wondering if it’s a problem with accessing her media from the scratch disc, which happens to be a LaCie 160G FW drive.
If FCP opens a new project without issue, then it’s perhaps a problem with a corrupt project file or the project can’t access the media it needs. Corrupt FW directory?
April, can you start a new project and successfully import some of the media files you are using from the troublesome project into the new project? Just trying to determine what’s workiing for you and what isn’t.
– Don
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It’s turning it into a text file, which is normal. Either delete the .txt at the end or add a .fcp at the end. That should clear it up. If you post it, I should be able to look at it.
Is that FCP4 or 4.5?
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I actually just remembered a file from early on in the project that I saved on another HD — that one at least starts the “Reading Project” process, but once it gets to 6%, General Error comes up again. The ones on my 160GB don’t even start the reading project process.
I opened a new project and imported 5 of the files I was using in the old project, they work fine.
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Don could be on to something here. Do you have disk warrior? Maybe rebuilding the directory would help this problem.
Jeremy
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[Aprildentist] “I opened a new project and imported 5 of the files I was using in the old project, they work fine.”
Okay. So now we know 2 things: Your FCP program is running OK and you know you have access to your media, or at least 5 of your media files. You need to make sure you have access to all your media within the new project. Once you’ve determined that, with the new project running try going to the file menu and choose open or open recent and navigate to your monster/chiller project and see if it’ll open that way, although I’m not optimistic.
– Don
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It’s FCP4.
I don’t see a .txt, and tried adding .fcp, but it still opens as a text file.
I was trying to figure out where to upload the file — I have a limited number of pages with my hosting company, and all are part of my public website. I tried geocities since it’s free, but you can only upload 5MB, and the project is 11MB.
Do you know of any quick/free/easy sites I can upload to?
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Right click or control click on your prject and go to ‘create archive of …’ This will zip it and then you can upload.
Jeremy
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It worked, and I could open it, I have FCP5 though and it updated it. So it seems we might have a different issue. Perhaps it’s a corrupt piece of media, in which case you have to do what Don started you doing, and that is create a new project and keep importing a handful of clips at a time until you find the culprit. Also, a good way to do this quickly is to delete all the render files. What might be happening is that since you have renamed your project you should have different project files that are spread out in different folders. For example if your project was named Project1, then a folder in your capture scratch is called Project1 and all renders go in there. then you rename to Project2, and now all of the renders go into a folder called Project2 in your render file folder. THis is why renaming the project can get funky, especially with FCP4 (I’d recommend the free upgrade to FCP 4.5 at least for your next project). Now all of your rendered media is spread out to different parts of the drive. So, I’d start by deleting the audio and video render files to see if that clears up your problem. If it doesn’t, then you should start importing all of the media files to see which one is corrupt. Once you find it, take it offline and recapture. Make sense? By deleting the render files, you will have to rerender everything, but this is a small price to pay if it saves the project file. Let us know how it goes. Then, if you need to back up, you can duplicate the original file and rename it Project1_3_20_06. If this happens again, delete the date (_3_20_06) so that it keeps the same file name as the original, make sense?
Jeremy
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