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FCP Startup Error…It won’t Startup
The problem is the FCP 5 will not open. I click both the icon on the dock and in the finder, and nothing happens… except the icon jumps once, then zilch.
I have tried the following:
A)1. Save any files or work you may have open, because you’ll need to restart the computer after these steps.
2. Open Terminal (found at /Applications/Utilities/).
3. Type
4. sudo update_prebinding -root / -force
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6. Press Return.
7. Enter your password when prompted.
8. The prebinding operation may take a few minutes. When it is complete, a new command-line prompt will appear. When this happens, please quit Terminal and restart your computer.B) Deleted final cut pro user data preferences and POA
Another sidenote: the only other program that will not open is iChat. everything else on my mac works fine.
Any suggestions??
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3 Replies
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Make sure you are not trying to start the application by double-clicking a project file. If you are, try starting the application directly instead. If that works, you may have a problem with your project.
Mike Peele -
We are also have the same problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Any help is greatly appreciated-
Nvision- -
I’m having the same problem- Final Cut worked fine yesterday, and today, the icon jumps once and nothing else; Final Cut won’t start.
Here are a few details that maybe someone can use to help us troubleshoot:
I got done ingesting material around 6:30p, saved everything, and shut down Final Cut. The computer was left on over the course of the night to upload some files to an ftp but I did come back around 9:00p just to check on the transfer and nothing seemed out of the ordinary (Final Cut wasn’t run then, so who knows).
I came in this morning and our intern said they tried to use Final Cut directly from being left on last night and it didn’t work- same scenario, icon jumps once and no start. So they tried a restart and that had the same result, and further tried an entire shutdown, same thing.
Here’s a note that may yield understanding to a greater mind: I switched to another user account on the computer and the Final Cut icon on the dock was grayed out with a circular line-through symbol and gave the message ‘You can’t open the application “Final Cut Pro” because it is not supported on this architecture‘ if you tried to start it there.
That should mean something and provide a diagnostic route? I did searches here and on the web and didn’t find anything too enlightening.
I did have this happen once before on this particular machine about six months ago and tried the trashing preferences solution others sometimes recommend- but ultimately had to resort to a Final Cut reinstall- which I’d prefer to avoid since that’ll put me a day behind and blow my weekend.
So any clues or insights on how the ‘architecture’ would have changed over the course of the evening or even what said architecture consists of?
Solutions would be nice too- but the reinstall has worked before and if it has to be, it has to be. But knowing why it went wrong and preventing it from happening again would work for me… this randomly happening a third time in the future would deliver too much angst.
Thanks ahead of time for any helpful input.
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