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FCPX Events and Projects not loading from internal hard-drive
I have a weird situation happening with Final Cut Pro X. When I start up Final Cut, I get an error message stating:
“[EVENT NAME AND FILEPATH]/CurrentVersion.fcpevent is not a valid location for a document file.
Open documents from within Final Cut Pro.”
None of the events and projects on my internal hard drive load once this occurs. I can still see my folder structure in my projects, just none of the projects themselves. I can also see any events and projects on any external drives I have plugged it. It gets weirder; if there are no external hard drives plugged in, it automatically creates a new event with the day’s date. If I quit and start up Final Cut Pro X again, that event will give me the same error message as above, and also won’t show up.
And this is where it gets weirdest: I’ve tried deleting the preferences, repairing disk permissions, getting rid of any folders with ‘DCIM’ in the title, restarting the computer, even deleting FCPX and reinstalling it from the app store but the problem persists. I had this happen back at the start of December as well, and it seemed to resolve itself after a night. The problem appears (so far) to be totally spontaneous; I was working in Final Cut Pro at the office just fine yesterday, but when I started it up at home, it gave me trouble.
I’ve seen a similar issue on the forums here and at Apple, but so far I haven’t found any explanation for what causes this bug or how to fix it. Has anyone run into a similar problem, and is there a solution that reliably fixes it?
PS I’m working from a 2009 Macbook Pro running 10.6.8, using Final Cut Pro v. 10.0.7
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You haven’t altered the name and/or location of either the “Final Cut Projects” folder or the “Final Cut Events” folder in Finder have you? FCPX won’t recognize Projects or Events that are in any folder other than the “right” one. Like Event Manager X uses a folder “Final Cut Events – Hidden” so FCPX won’t load those projects within.
Are trying to open a project by double clicking the “.current” file? Don’t.
FCPX has to have at least one event, that’s why it automatically makes a new one when your internal events don’t load and no external is connected.
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Thanks for the reply!
Nope, the folders have the same name as always, and I’ve tried hiding them both in an ‘FC – hidden’ folder, then putting them into the folders FCPX creates on startup, but no dice. The one workaround that does seem to do the trick is putting them all on an external hard-drive, in which case they show up just fine.
I would still like to figure out some way to fix FCPX on my internal drive however.
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No problem, at least you know your projects are OK and can access them from the external!
Something strange going on for sure. Try logging in as another user and see if the internal drives projects and events show up in FCPX. If they do, you won’t want the external that has copies of the same projects connected. Unless you hide the projects on one drive or the other first.
When is last time this system has had a clean install?
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Good thinking about checking the other account. It also has the same problem (but at least now I know it’s not just a matter of my account settings).
I don’t think this system has ever had a clean install since I got it, which might have something to do with it. Do you mean wiping it and then reloading everything again from time machine?
EDIT: I did recently replace the hard-drive in the macbook pro, which was around the same time this problem first started up (I plugged in the new drive as an external first, cloned my drive on the computer onto it, then switched them out).
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SUCCESS!
My solution to the problem involved shutting down the macbook, waiting 10 seconds, starting it back up in Safe mode (by holding down the shift key while pressing the startup button), running FCPX (which gave me an error message saying it wasn’t supported in safe mode), then restarting the macbook. All of my projects and events showed up again as soon as I started up FCPX.
(note that I’ve seen people try this on a couple of other forums and it didn’t work for them…but it resolved the issue for me).
If anyone else has this issue, hope this helps!
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