File error: the specified file…in use by another app.

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try restarting your system

[Al Sinclair]

I read somewhere that this can be caused by some anti-virus software…

I get the same thing from time to time.

I usually just restart the render and things seem to sort themselves out.

Al.

[Bob Flood]

Hi

its quicktime

everytime i open an export, even an fcp one, in quicktime, i cant write over it. even when i close qt.

i do 2 things, either restart my system, which is a pain. or delete the file before restarting

i think it might be a permission issue with quicktime

if you are getting it with internal renders, try rebulding permissions on all your discs

hope this helps

bee eph

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Charlie Nz]

Hey everyone,

I had this problem as did other people at my work and we tried all the fixes possible, but were still getting this message, so I sepnt a little time and found this fix. I have applied it to all our G5’s and so far so good, batch rendering is once again possible. I noticed all posts on this problem seem to be workarounds not fixes, so spread the word.

Basically you need to stop Spotlight from tracking your FCP render files.

This (render issue) can happen because of the way that Final Cut Pro caches data while rendering, not because of any issue with Spotlight.

To prevent this from happening, you can tell Spotlight not to index the Render Files folder in your Scratch Disk:

From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
From the View menu, choose Spotlight.
Click the Privacy tab to reveal the areas that Spotlight will not index.
In the Finder, open your “Final Cut Pro Documents” folder.
Drag the Render Files folder into Spotlight’s list

More info at this site:

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302790

Happy rendering.

[Ken Weiss]

I had the same problem. Go to your system settings and make sure that the Video/Render capture settings are set to the same folder where you originally had all your rendered files. When you change projects and render folders if you don’t reset to the same render folder when you return to a project, it may cause this problem.

[Cath South]

Hi there Charlie NZ I am struggling to output my project. I am still using old fcp7 and am getting the File error mentioned above – after waiting the hours it takes to try and output my 1hour project. I tried telling spotlight to not index the fcp doc folders’ render files… but still do not seem to be able to output the pic. It is an hour worth of doco and … yeah it just won’t come out! Is there an issue given I have been cutting for a long time and have a number of past project files related to the project (my way of trying to reduce the size – keeping old sequences in past projects, deleting the old sequences from the new project and thereby reducing project file size)? Does the spotlight solution only work if you do it prior to starting a cut? any help you can offer would be great… any other solutions….