final cut pro 5.1.2 won’t launch

[Jeremy Garchow]

Have you tried launching fcp without launching that particular project?

[Camilla]

Yes I have tried launching from the icn on the dock, from the application in hte app folder, from different projects.. its all the same ;(
thanks
C

[Jeremy Garchow]

When you deleted your media, what else did you delete?

Have you trashed your preferences?

[Camilla]

that is the million dollar question
what did I trash unintentionally
when I went to prepare to reinstall Final Cut (because it wasnt launching)
I went first to look for the preferences in the library, to dump them
and they were not there

oddly now that I have reintsalled Final Cut there still is no file in prefrences

The only wierd thing from around the tme I dumped the media files was that I was prompted to select the scratch disk.. it couldnt find something so I just indicated the scratch disk I wanted it to use
and then it never worked again
I have nver been able to or had the chance to reset the scratch disk again

grazie

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Camilla] “and they were not there”

User folder > library >preferences > final cut pro user data ?

Sorry to be so rudimentary here, but I am just being thorough.

Jeremy

[Shane Ross]

FCP Rescue anyone?

This does it for you. Just click TRASH and it trashes your prefs…

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Camilla]

Jeremy thanks for taking the time to walk me through this
If I go to my internal hard drive library folder there is no file or folder refering to final cut at all.

I was looking for something I thought would be called com.apple.finalcut.preferences

or something like that.. no?

C

[Camilla]

wait wait wait
i just did a search and found it
a folder in prefernces in the library called final cut pro user data

there are also some funal cut Pro Cache files.. shall I delete all these things??

i will wait for your advice
thank you!!!!!

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Camilla] “I was looking for something I thought would be called com.apple.finalcut.preferences”

Nope. Go to your Hard drive, then go to your user folder then the account folder (the one with the little house icon named whatever your computer is named) the go to library then find the final cut pro user data folder.

Don’t go to the library folder at the root level of your hard drive.

Make sense?

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

Delete:

Final Cut Pro 5.0 Prefs.fcset

Final Cut Pro Obj Cache.fcmch

Final Cut Pro Prof Cache.fcpch

Relaunch