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Help! What is this error message?
I’m working in FCP on a new travel show, and I’ve I’ve started getting a very strange message- when I open up the system it says:
“Could not open handler. System memory very low.”
Not sure would could be causing it. The MacPro in question has duel 2.56 GHz Core Intel processors and 4 GB’s of RAM.
There are four internal drives, and they all have over 20 GB’s of space left in them. This happened yesterday, and when I opened a back up of the same project file from the Autosave vault, I didn’t have the message come up. But this is a different project file, and I’m concerned that something may be corrupting project files. I threw out the User settings, but again the message has come up.
Does anybody know what might be causing this error message?
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4 Replies
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[samahcinema] “There are four internal drives, and they all have over 20 GB’s of space left in them.”
That’s way too little free space. While ist possible thats not the source of your problems, it probably is.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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Let me clarify though- there are four internal drives. The one that is the start up disk and is targeted for FCP documents (video & audio capture, vid & aud render, wave form cache, autosave and thumbnail cache) has 221 GB’s available…
So I really don’t think it’s that… I don’t know, I’m at a loss.
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Any SATA drive on the host controller thats too full can cause havoc. Don’t try to out think ’em, just don’t ever overload ’em. Do other projects run properly??? Give another one a shot…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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First of all, your startup disk should NEVER be your capture scratch disk. NEVER. Especially when you have 3 other disks to choose from. It’s just begging for trouble. I don’t know that it’s responsible for your “low system memory” error, but it’s a good thing to take care of right off the bat.
Also, the amount of free space isn’t as important as the percentage of your disks that are free. Once they get over about 80% full, problems can start popping up. I’m sure someone else will chime in about the error message, but FCP is pretty picky about system configuration and, like I said, not enough free space is asking for trouble. Hope that helps a little.
pvw
Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-ProductionG5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / OS 10.4.11 / FCP 6.0.2 / QT 7.3
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