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Freeze!
This seems to be more of a finder issue rather than FCP, but I thought I’d run this by you guys. For some reason when I go to browse any files in FCP ie. reconnecting media, FCP locks up when I select any particular file. I’ve ran disk utility and repaired permissions with my OSX disk and disk warrior too, and all seems to be well. I’ve also ran a ram diagnostic and that cleared fine as well. On a side note I can’t eject/unmount any external drives either. It says something is running, although all other apps are closed out. I’m running out of ideas on how to tackle this one. Even the guys at the mac store haven’t had any ideas. I’ve seen enough beach ball to make me wanna shoot myself!
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What processes are listed as running when you run Activity Monitor? This should show you what might be hanging things up.
Do you have Spotlight indexing and journaling turned off on your external drives? -
Journaling is turned off on all drives, and activity monitor doesn’t show anything running anything out of control.
Its strange, I can navigate through folders, only when I select an app or a file of any sort I get the spinning ball for 5 to 10 minutes. Then goes away and all is normal until something else is selected
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Also, all applications are running fine. Safari, Itunes, FCP, none give any hint of anything being wrong unless you have to navigate to find a file and then they’ll crash
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What version of the OS are you running?
Have you run all available updates especially OS updates?
Does the same issues happen in another user account?If the issue also happens in another user account, then you will need to archive and install your OS.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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I’m running tiger 10.4.11 on a dual g5 w/ 6gigs of ram, all my updates are well, up to date. I have actually tried using another account name and the same thing goes on. I’ve also cleared the caches with a 3rd party cleaner app. No dice there either. I’m trying to avoid losing a day reinstalling software due to deadlines, and all my other applications are running smoothly. Except as i mentioned when I’m browsing for files.
So its sounding like I have to wipe my system. How exactly do I go about archiving?
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If it happens under another user account then it is definitly the OS. You probably dont need to erase the whole computer, try an archive and install I the OS that will keep all your data and reinstall just the OS.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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Thanks for all the responses btw. So I archived and reinstalled the os, the good news is all my issues with finder seem to be resolved. Only now FCP wont launch at all. I’m assuming I need to reinstall this now. Which I’d like to avoid if at all possible for time reasons. …
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