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Help – New Quad Core G5 bugging out.
I bought the newest G5 Power PC quad core operating on 10.4.7. Have 4GB of SDRAM. Working with over 100 hours of footage on feature doc spread over 3 drives – two LaCie and one G-tech. Working on FCP 5.1. It’s summer and I’m running the system in a relatively warm room. though do have AC and a fan.
No problems for 1st several months on project, but lately, been getting the Mac spinning beach ball every time I try to access footage in a different bin.
Any suggestions of what I should do?Thank you so much for all your help!
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possibly cleaning the cache (tiger cache cleaner works well, I use it) or possibly trashing the prefs…those are 2 common FCP (and AE) cure-alls…
~Ben the Camera Guy
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[Brooklyn Girl] “Any suggestions of what I should do?”
It’s not your G5, it’s the storage management you’ve got.
Consolidate all of your media on one drive array. You’ve been fragmenting the heck out of those drives and I’m assuming they’re daisy chained in some way. 100 hours of footage should NEVER be strung out over multiple drives like that.
Invest in a LaCie 2.5 TB SATA array if that’s large enough and consolidate everything there. If that’s not large enough, purchase two and stripe them together.
Also, cool your machine down. If it’s running hot that will kill your machine prematurely. I never allow our room to run hotter than 73 in the summer, usually more like 72 with fans blowing across the back of all our G5’s.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Don’t forget to repair disk permissions. I would also run a program called Disk Warrior on all the drives. You will need to Boot the G5 off the Disk Warrior disk to run it on the system drive. I noticed my local Comp USA has copies of Disk Warrior.
I’ve noticed that the network will sometimes cause the spinning ball. Shut down anything connected to your network.
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Also try searching for a program called “spindown fix” it will stop your drives from auto sleep when they are idle… Ive had dropped frame print to tape sessions when a edit has 80% of the media on one external and 20% on another. If the 20% drive falls asleep, it wont power up fast enough for FCP to access the data.
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