Media missing if no car is inserted, once inserted all files are in the libary..

[Rikki Blow]

All Ben’s advice is perfect in general, but I’m pretty sure there’s an actual quirk involved too.

I always have FCPX set to import to Library.
I always wait until I get the ‘finished importing – eject card’ pop-up.

But the described issue has happened – once by chance a week ago, otherwise maybe a few months ago. I make a lot of shorts and my workflow is pretty repeated – there’s nothing I can pinpoint about the times it’s happened – ie not particularly big projects, not a different camera format etc. Just random quirkiness.