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FCPX crashing and I haven’t found a SINGLE person with the same issue, Danny Greer at Premiumbeat sent me here!
As the subject states, I was working with the Danny Greer at Premiumbeat as they write great tutorials etc, and after reading everything about everything when it comes to FCPX crashing not even they could offer a solution as they have never heard of the problem.
Below is my original email to Danny who suggested I put it on this forum as someone has GOT to have the same problem as I do.
Hello,
I have read EVERY SINGLE article you have about final cut pro X crashing and NOTHING has fixed my problem. You’re articles seem to be the most informative so I thought I would ask you guys. I also, haven’t ran into ANYONE else that has my exact problem. I am seriously at my breaking point and about ready to break my laptop in half and switch to a PC with Adobe…. I am literally going insane!!!
Late 2008 Macbook Pro, 2.4ghz intel core 2 duo, 8GB ram, Lion 10.7.5 with FCPX 10.7
Every time I open it and do anything, and I mean anything, it goes to the wheel of death and crashes my entire computer. If I force quit and reopen it just says my disks are in use and need to be re mounted, if I try to eject and remount disks it goes to grey screen, if I try to restart it goes to grey screen, the ONLY way to even use the computer is a hard restart. Once I restart and open FCPX it just goes right to the spinning wheel of death.
Again, I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING IN EVERY ARTICLE YOU HAVE WRITTEN along with erasing and reformatting my drives (internal & external) reloading FCPX and my OS. Trash preferences, media manager blah blah blah I have tried it all WITH ZERO results….
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Have you considered hardware issues? Bad ram can cause these symptoms.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Camcorders: Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV30/40, Sony Z7U, VX2000, PD170; FCP 6 certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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HI Aaron, that sounds terrible. Have you considered updating to 10.08 and installing Mountain Lion?
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I am running 10.8.3 and still the same issue.
As far “what changed since it was working” absolutely NOTHING!!!
It worked great for me, for about 8 months and then I was working on a project and got the spinning wheel of death and it’s never worked the same since. That is when I started changing things, reformatting drives, upgrading OS, trying new drives, new RAM, uninstall, reinstall, etc etc etc…
I would also like to point out that I am running it stock, meaning no third party plugins or anything. I know this laptop is older (late 2008) but it’s above all of the minimum requirements to run the software and I talk to other people that are flying through projects on the same machine.
Any chance the actual internal hard drive is bad?
I just wish there was someone in the https://WWW that has even heard of this before…
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Since it seems to be unique to you (sorry) wouldn’t that point to A) bad hardware or B) bad media? Have you tried your projects and events (or better yet, copies of them) on a different machine?
Best,
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And that machine is really really pushing the limit. 8gigs and an intel core2duo. But Id think it’d just make it slow.
Swap out the RAM if you’ve tried everything else. It’s super cheap.
If you haven’t, try completely reformatting the drive, and at least 1 external where your media lives. Then install the is and X. Then start a brand new project and see how it goes. Don’t hook up any hardware, don’t add a single thing or even check your email.
You can also swap the internal drive really cheap too.
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You know if you’ve never updated that HD since buying, there’s a really strong chance the drive is dying. After 2 years I start getting really nervous with laptop drives. I’ve seen an insane amount of them die in the last year or two. I would recommend you run a time machine backup ASAP if you can.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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This sounds a lot like an issue I was having a few weeks ago. My solution was to create a new user account. As soon as I started FCPX under the new user, everything ran smoothly.
MacPro 8 core 2.8 gHz, 16GB RAM, Assorted Firewire Hard Drives, Final Cut Studio 3, Final Cut X, Adobe Production Premium CS6, Logic 8
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Yes, I have tried all of that except moving them to a different machine, that is my last resort that I am planning on doing soon. Thanks!
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Yeah, I knew this machine IS on the low end to handle video but, I have gotten new RAM and reformatted everything that you mentioned etc. No difference.
I haven’t got a new HD for the laptop though so, thanks for that tip. I have a desktop that I am going to try soon.
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Thank you for the tip! I have already tried this with no luck though.
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