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Final Cut stalling without External HD
This problem is sort of fixed, but its curious to me and I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I have been working with an external HD on my work computer (in fact we work off a lot of them) but this one happened to be my personal one. I was working on a project, run off of my HD and when finished took it home. Tuesday morning I come into work and fire up FCP and it keeps stalling on the start up screen, after its already loaded everything, but it doesn’t go any further.
Now I know you’re thinking, trash the prefs, because that’s what I was thinking and that’s what I did, over and over and over again. I even called Apple and they told me to do the same thing, but it was still stalling. So finally I uninstalled FCP and did a fresh install. Fired up FCP and it stalled again (at this point I was running FCP 6.0, earlier I was running FCP 6.0.6) So I did updates to bring it up to 6.0.5 and it still stalled at the same point. I left work yesterday annoyed and confused.
Today, I came in and fired up FCP and still got the same response. I was waiting to get all the paperwork from my boss so I could call Apple and sort out whatever needed to be sorted out, and I plugged in my external HD that I happened to have with me so I could do some Photoshop work. I fired up FCP on a whim and bam, it opens up just fine. I closed it, opened it again, everything works just fine.
However, when I unplug the external HD Final Cut continues to stall. I went in, while it was working and reset all my scratch disc to the local HD and it still won’t start up without the external HD. (I’ve also updated to 6.0.6)
Is there some sort of pref file on my external that is causing this? Since it is a fresh install of FCP it’s not trying to open any particular project off the external HD, so I can’t seem to figure out what is causing this. Any ideas??
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Try opening a totally different project that does not have any media assets from your external hard drive.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
To elaborate on what Steve said, With FCP closed double-click or drag in a completely different project.
When FCP is starting up it is trying to open your problem project. Since something is wrong it locks up. Perhaps it is the HD issue, or it could be something else. In any case, you need to get FCP thinking about a different project.
In FCP under “User Preferences” I have un-checked the setting “open last project on application launch”. It avoids this sort problem by always starting with a new, empty project. Its only one more click to open the project I want, a small price to avoid this sort of issue.
DWR
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