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FCPX project gone!?
Hey all –
Please direct me to elsewhere if this issue has been posted before, but I’ve just had a little heart attack moment.
I’ve been working on an edit with FCPX, using the 10.0.8 Trial Version with a client to see if it’s a viable way forward. I was up very late working on a project. Namely, had a lot of clips trimmed and arranged into the timeline. Closed the program as normal and went to bed. I woke up this morning, opened the project, and everything is GONE in the timeline.
All of my event info, in/out ranges, data is still there, but my timeline is empty. It’s like it erased the whole thing. Now I have to start over?? Other past projects are still fine… but this one…magically gone.
Very upset… anyone have this happen?
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6 Replies
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Does the project not exist or are all the edits within the project gone? If the latter… Undo undo undo
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The project exists, but the timeline where all my cuts were was totally empty. Are there an infinite amount of Undo’s? I’ve already started rebuilding what I had done yesterday… but is that “undo” method viable?
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It’s possible the backup file is still intact (if it hasn’t been over-written this AM). With FCP closed, in the Finder, navigate to your project folder >Backups and move the backup to the same folder level as CurrentVersion.fcpproject. Hide the old one in a temp folder. Launch FCP and see whether your sequence returns.
Russ
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Forgot to add that the backup file, which has a timestamp as its file name, needs to be re-named to CurrentVersion.fcpproject,
Sorry about the missing step.
Russ
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Thanks for the advice, Russ. I manually rebuilt my timeline… but if this happens again… I’ll keep this in mind!
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Sorry to come to this late – and it’s probably not the issue,
BUT.
I sometimes see people hitting “new Compound” and not putting anything in them. If you were to do that and launch it, you can get what looks like a blank timeline replacing your populated one.
Did you check the upper left area right below the Favorite/Reject keyword HUD to see if your timeline history was still set to your main edit?
Just a possibility.
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