has this happened to anyone ?

[David Bogie]

Yes. It happens to very few people. Very few. But it is far more often than we have any reason to expect or tolerate.

FCP seems to get into the drive directory and totally wipe out any reference to the files. No amount of data rescue effort can resurrect them because they never existed. Not ever.

So your only hope — your ONLY hope — is to recapture them.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Arty Gold]

thanks…

yeah i figured as much…so i had already recaptured…
i was just wondering if it was a big problem or if as always only seems to happen to me !

sigh,,,why can’t i be that lucky in the lottery

[Don Greening]

[arty] “sigh,,,why can’t i be that lucky in the lottery”

Indeed. Perhaps some maintenance for your system may be in order to keep future “luckiness” to a bare minimum.

Use DiskWarrior on a regular basis to build new hard drive directories.
Using Apple’s Disk Utility to repair permissions on your startup drive.
Make sure journaling is turned off for all drives other than the startup drive.
Use the freeware app Cocktail or something similar to clean out bloated cache and log files, also regularly.

If you’re doing all the above already then disregard. This is just in case you’ve forgotten some of the regular maintenance routines.

– Don

[David Bogie]

Don, some of that advice might help other issues but the “mysterious disappearing media puzzle” remains unsolvable. It does not seem to be as common as it was when FCP4 and 4.5 were launched but it is a totally weird phenomenon. It is as if the files never existed.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Arty Gold]

great…

it’s a good thing i took your earlier advice and started labeling and archiving my tapes correctly or else this would have been a nightmare…
god bless the cow !