FCPX keeps quitting

[Ronny Courtens]

Hi Wendy,

I haven’t heard of any similar issues, but one thing you can try is to refresh (trash) your FCPX preferences.

If you are not familiar with refreshing your preferences, this may help (explanation starts at point 9): https://support.apple.com/kb/TS3893

There is even a free application that will do this for you: https://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/

– Ronny

[Wendy Snyder]

Thanks Ronnie…forgot all about that. I have Preference Manager for FCPX and will try that…after the 4hrs
it will take to make a copy of my data first…that’s what https://support.apple.com/kb/TS3893 recommended. Will write back with an update. Wendy

[Ronny Courtens]

Yes they advise this for safety reasons, but backing up all your data is not absolutely necessary for troubleshooting. Nevertheless it’s always good to have backups of your critical files.

– Ronny

[John Fishback]

I’m reading your post as I sit here waiting for Disk Warrior to complete its work on my machine. It’s another route you can try when odd things start happening in FCPX. Also, Repair Permissions after DW. When a program loses track of where bits are on a drive, all sorts of unexplainable things happen.

John

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FCP-X 10.0.9, Motion 5.0.7, Compressor 4.0.7

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[Wendy Snyder]

so funny and I am reading your post, just as I am now able to take the 2 hours to back up my FCPX Projects Folder…. I am going to clear the Preferences next as @ Ronny Courtens suggestion….and then will run Disk Warrior. So Thanks.
FCPX and Ken Burns, especially, is so finicky it was never this bad in iMovie, which I upgraded from when things got serious. And it’s not just the Ken Burns….copy / paste stops working / snapping gets in the way of making subtle adjustments / no easy way, at least for me, to save edited sequences for future adding in or out without putting them at the end of the timeline…and my timelines are now extending from NYC to Chicago!