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FCPX re-finding files after RAID disk copy
I’m editing FCPX 10.0.5 on an Imac 3.4 Ghz I7. My Western Digital 4TB Thunderbolt Raid 1 drive (the same 2TB on Drive A and Drive B) keeps giving me a “can’t find disk A” error, and then after I shut down, unplug the RAID, and restart it, Disk A successfully rebuilds from disk B, and then the system can see both disks A and B again until the same thing happens a few days later. I’ve been in touch with Western Digital, and I’ll be getting a replacement unit (enclosure plus drives) from WD, and would like to know if anyone can tell me the best way to copy the data from my current WD RAID drive to the new one (which I will also set up in RAID 1), so that FCPX will be least likely to have trouble finding my events and projects.
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Simply copy the “Final Cut Events” and “Final Cut Projects” folder over to your new raid.
Eject the old one, and launch FCPX.
You can also use FCPX itself to duplicate all of your events and projects over to the new raid.
It’s very easy.
It sounds like you just need to replace the one drive in your raid 1 system. It seems drive a keeps failing.
Jeremy
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Thanks, Jeremy. I appreciate your help on this.
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No worries.
The way FCPX works, it makes it fairly easy to move big chunks of media around with minimal reconnect fuss.
Using the Finder is good if you know you will never have those same drives with the same Events/Projects on it attached to the same computer again. FCPX will get confuse if this happens.
Using FCPX to do the copies will then create new IDs for the Events/Projects and allow you to have both storage devices mounted at the same time with FCPX open. FCPX will also verify the copies and make sure everything gets over to the new drive in tact.
Both are valid methods, you just need to decode what makes the most sense for your situation.
Jeremy
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If you got more stuff on the RAID other than FCPX things I would use CarbonCopyCloner (or something similar) as it does a better verification while copying compared to the Finder.
But as Jeremy mentioned with this method FCPX will be confused when both volumes are mounted since the IDs are not replaced.
So an option would be to make a safe copy of everything beside FCPX stuff and than use FCPX to transfer it’s own stuff.-Andreas
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This is a big help, Andreas. Thanks.
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