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HELP! – frozen out – “missing disks”
I can’t get in to my FCP5. Every time I start it up, I get a “Missing Disk” dialogue box pop up. It says: To preserve the integrity of the data used by Final Cut Pro, it is necessary to ensure the existence of the following path.
It then says my main Hard Drive is offline. My only options are 1) quit, 2) check again (does nothing), 3) Reset Scratch Disks (tried – won’t let me – says access is denied).
I’ve tried rebooting, to no avail. I did have some files on my hard drive that I removed, but they were test clips and not used in the current project.
Anyone?
Thanks,
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3 Replies
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First, repair permissions on your system drive.
Then, start from your OS10 install disk and run Disk Utility.
DO NOT RUN ANY OTHER DRIVE, DIRECTORY or SYSTEM MAINTENANCE APPS YET.Post back.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Thanks for the reply. I actually was able to fix it a few minutes ago by clearing the HD as a possible scratch disk. FCP let me move on from there.
Thanks again!
Paul -
Paul,
Thanks for posting the solution to your problem! Nine months later I had a related problem and was able to fix it after searching the Cow and finding this thread. I wanted to post this because my problem is related to offline hot-swappable drives that I used for a separate project and I’m sure others work the same way. So here’s my workflow, the reason it’s a related problem will become obvious:
I bought a four bay, removable drive eSATA box with the idea of using different stripped arrays for different projects. Today I had to go back to work on an earlier project which is stored on an internal array inside my G5. Since I didn’t need any files on any of the disks used in the external box, I didn’t turn it on. When I tried to open the earlier project (by double clicking the project icon directly, so FCP was not looking for any newer projects or their media) I got the same dialog box you mentioned at the top of this thread.
I searched the FCP manual for “Missing Disks” to no avail, then searched the Cow. Thank you! Problem resolved.
To be very clear for anyone who comes across this problem: When you get that dreaded dialog box, choose the “Reset Scratch Disks” button, find the missing volume in the scratch disk list and hit the “Clear” button for that volume. Then, back in the Missing Disks dialogue you’ll now have a “continue” button.
Regards,
David
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