Log And Transfer Crash

[Angela Zumbrum]

Thank you so much for this information! I am going to try it tonight! Stay tuned 🙂 🙂 🙂

[Angela Zumbrum]

So, I tried using the Terminal. I did as you said and only tried to copy the one file which is a .MTS file. here is what I get after entering my copy command??
cp: illegal option — a
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-pvX] source_file target_file
cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-pvX] source_file … target_directory

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

Thank you

[Jeremy Garchow]

Please be very very careful with the Terminal.

I would wait until you have a backup in place before you start diving in to the terminal.

Jeremy

[Angela Zumbrum]

Ok. You’re right. No more terminal until I have back up in my hand. I read the link that was sent to me and it seemed pretty complicated. Tried to follow it perfectly and it didn’t do much. UGH! I’m still trying other routes too. Thank you.

[Angela Zumbrum]

Jeremy,

Hi there. So, I finally gave up on file that I needed. It was a dud! The bride will have to live with what we have. However, I am now having a new issue with this edit. This project is going to be the end of me 🙁

I have 3 sequences and only 2 of them will export. The ceremony sequence, which was kind of difficult to edit, will NOT export. I am doing a basic export > Quicktime Movie > Current Settings. Nothing fancy at all. I have tried multipile times and have gotten these two messages. ” I/O error” and ” General Error”

I am so frustrated……I wonder if it’s still this drive that might be failing?? Any tricks on getting this sequence out of FCP and onto a DVD. I don’t care about losing quality anymore…I just need to be DONE.

Thank you so much for any help.

Angela

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Angela Zumbrum] “I wonder if it’s still this drive that might be failing??”

Yes, it very well could be.

General Error in FCP7 usually goes away with a preference trash. You can use Preference Manager from Digital Rebellion to easily trash them if you’d like (it’s free).

Do you have another hard drive you could export to? Do you have enough space on the current hard drive for the export?

[Angela Zumbrum]

Hi Thanks for the quick response!

I have tried exporting it to multiple drives. No luck. I even copied the sequence, started a new FCP project, pasted it and tried exporting it again….no luck. There is plenty of space on all the drive that I am trying to export too. It usually give the message “not enough free space” when that happens. 🙁

[Jeremy Garchow]

I would delete your render files (Tools > Render Manager), quit fcp and trash your preferences and try again.

[Angela Zumbrum]

Ok. I will try those things. I am working on a new wedding now too. This one is giving me NO trouble. If I trash prefrences, will it effect all of the projects that I am working on?? I don’t want to make anything worse. I assume that deleting render files, will only make me re-render. IS this risky?

[Jeremy Garchow]

Both of these steps are very common troubleshooting activities.

They aren’t risky.