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FCP won’t launch! Yikes! help . . .
Now, after my non-cloning process, i’ve unplugged the Pro Drive, restarted, and FCP won’t launch (it tries to for several seconds, then says it “quit unexpectedly”). Motion won’t launch – the splash screen just sits there in the middle of my desktop. Quicktime sort of launches, but won’t play anything, and has no video window. Mail and Safari seem to work fine.
I had re-partitioned/re-formatted my Pro Drive before noticing all these problems, but my System Hard Drive should still be intact, even though it is the one that was supposed have been cloned (before this morning’s partitioning).
I figure I should get my programs working again before trying to clone anything again, eh? I really need some help on this if any of you have any light . . . THANKS!
Thanks again!
J. Tad Newberry
Big Ya Productions
Power Mac G5
Dual 2 GHz
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Did you try the standard fixit technique for FCP which is trashing preferences and repairing persmissions? If not, Google to find out the relatively straight forward procedure.
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[J. Tad Newberry] “I figure I should get my programs working again before trying to clone anything again, eh?”
did you carbon copy clone from one drive to another drive that already had stuff on it?
It would appear to be a problem, since the disk capacity and files don’t match afterwards.
I always format my destination drive first.
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Ya, thanks. Trashing ye olde prefs was the first thing i did, then did the repair and verify permissions on the drive via Disk Utility, no luck. Ran Tech Tool (simple and intermediate tests so far) with no problems found. Hmmmmm…
Thanks again!
J. Tad Newberry
Big Ya Productions
Power Mac G5
Dual 2 GHz
http://www.bigya.tv -
The destination drive was brand new, partitioned and formatted. I have since reformatted the drive again (this is the new Simple Tech Pro Drive) but have yet to try the clone again until I can get Final Cut Suite to work again…
My next move might be to reinstall Final Cut since it seems the rest of the programs (outside the suite, like Mail, Safari, etc.) are working fine.
Thanks again!
J. Tad Newberry
Big Ya Productions
Power Mac G5
Dual 2 GHz
http://www.bigya.tv -
Oi! When it rains it pours…
I’ve been trying to update Tech Tool, and it has been ‘gathering information’ for about the last hour. Since i was about to do a clean install of Leopard (first time!) anyway, i think my next step is to just wipe out the system drive (boy, that sounds dangerous!) and start over with Leopard and then FCP. Not much media content on that drive anyway, but i’ll back up what i can and get going…but i’ll keep checking the forum (from my “trusty” ol’ PC) to see if any of you have any pointers before i get past the point of no return…
Thanks again!
J. Tad Newberry
Big Ya Productions
Power Mac G5
Dual 2 GHz
http://www.bigya.tv -
Hopefully I”m not speaking too soon, but I have now successfully upgraded (via clean install) to Leopard, reinstalled FCS2, and cranking away on my projects again. Compressor is even working! During the middle of the install process (i think after Audio Content 1), the automatic install process ceased, but it seemed to continue fine by just putting in the disks and clicking on the install icon. After that, once I remembered to not allow the drives or monitor to sleep (and no screen saver!), i was good to go. I’m still a little iffy about this ProDrive, though. The other little surprise I discovered with Leopard is that my e-SATA card is now useless, so I’ve daisy-chained three FW800 drives together into one FW800 port on my computer…and wonder if that is why they (the drives) continue to seem to go to sleep…and then all of a sudden kick into gear again? Computer is running fine, FCP running fine, but the drive sounds are a bit strange…
Thanks again!
J. Tad Newberry
Big Ya Productions
Power Mac G5
Dual 2 GHz
http://www.bigya.tv -
Ah, “Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible:” was checked. Bonehead.
Thanks again!
J. Tad Newberry
Big Ya Productions
Power Mac G5
Dual 2 GHz
http://www.bigya.tv
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