HELP!! I really screwed up…I think

[David Roth weiss]

This is why having a clone of your your system drive is so handy dandy… You’d be back up and running in minutes.

Anyway, now that I’ve lambasted you for not having your hand dandy clone on standby, if I were you, I’d use Digital Rebellion’s FCP remover, and then I’d do a full install. Save all your projects to another disk drive BTW, and remember to do all updates and keep running the updater until it tells yo that all of your software is up to date.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[C david Miller]

I think you went very easily on him David……….. and yes I have a clone backup

C. David Miller

CN8/Comcast Network Television

Central Pennsylvania Region

1050 East King Street

York, PA 17403

717-451-0138

[Mick Haensler]

For some reason my thank you response to Dave didn’t post yestereday. So thanks for your response Dave and for taking it easy on me. I did a complete reinstall and am in the process of updating all software. I’ll report back on how things went. Thanks again….Cow Rocks!!!

Mick Haensler
Higher Ground Media

[Mick Haensler]

I am happy to report FCS is finally loaded, all updates completed and I’m up and running again. Thanks again Dave. Next question, what is the best way to do a clone backup? Thanks again.

Mick Haensler
Higher Ground Media

[David Roth weiss]

[Mick Haensler] “hat is the best way to do a clone backup?”

Always glad to share cloning advice Mick, because it’s can be a real lifesaver.

First, use an inexpensive firewire drive or just a bare drive you chuck into a cheap firewire enclosure.

Now, download either Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, both are freeware and available all over the Web. With one of these great apps you’re going to produce a bootable clone of your entire system drive.

Apple in it’s infinite wisdom, unlike it’s big competitor Microsoft, has made booting from any connected drive a real breeze. So, if your system drive fails or you screw things up accidently or Apple tells you to install a update that wasn’t ready for prime time, you simply hook up your firewire clone, open Apple>>System Preferences>Startup Drive and select the clone, which you have labeled as MAC SYSTEM CLONE, and you boot to that.

Booting to that clone gives you many options. You can just get right back to work right from the firewire drive, or you can clone the firewire drive back to the internal system drive, or you can try copying just the things that went kaplooey, etc., etc., etc.

BTW, make sure that copies of all of your FCP project files are always stored in multiple places in addition your system drive so that you are never in fear of overwriting or losing your work. I copy all projects to a thumb drive as well as to my iDisk for offsite storage, and for good measure I copy to across my network to another computer as well.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[David Roth weiss]

[C David Miller] “I think you went very easily on him David……….. and yes I have a clone backup
“

THNX David… I’m certain I got my point across to Mick without damaging is self esteem.

A clone really is the cheapest and most important insurance a professional editor can have. I’ve had situations where the worst imaginable thing could happen, i.e. a system drive fried while a client and I were laboring intensely over a very difficult project with a very short deadline. I was back up and running in 90-seconds, having lost only fifteen minutes of work, which in that case was easily recreated. My client was mightily impressed that I was able to recover so quickly from a catastrophic failure and we made our deadline. Without a clone we would have been toast and my client would most likely have been blaming me to this very day.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[Ron Craig]

I copy all projects to a thumb drive as well as to my iDisk for offsite storage, and for good measure I copy to across my network to another computer as well.

Wow! Belt, suspenders AND a parachute!