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My project file has largely disappeared in FCPX
Problem
My project file has largely disappeared – from about 15 minutes worth of project in the timeline to about 3 minutes (which is from about a week ago).
System
MacOS Catalina 10.15.3
Mac mini 2018
Processor 3GHz 6-core intel core i5
Memory 64gb 2667 MGz DDR4
Graphics Intel UGD Graphics 630 1536 MB
FCPX 10.4.8
The Movies folder where the FCP X libraries are stored is on a Seagate 8TB external hard drive with over 5TB of free space. The back-up libraries are on the internal HD with about 341gb available from 500gb capacity. (Perhaps that is the problem that the 500gb capacity is not enough?)
What happened
I was getting beach balls as the project in the timeline got longer (at about 12 minutes of project in the timeline). I kept going as it wasn’t too bad. I then had trouble with Affinity Photo-created PSDs – when I imported them into the event folder within FCPX they just showed as black.
Since I was getting beach balls and the Affinity Photo-created PSDs weren’t showing, I decided to trash the preferences. I went to trash the preferences and got the message: “… Libraries/Documents will not be affected”. Obviously, this hasn’t turned out to be the case – from 15 minutes worth of project to 3 minutes!
I went to the Movies folder on the internal hard drive and tried re-opening the back-up copies but they all showed the 3 minute version of the project.
I have also tried Tom Wolsky’s advice from an apple discussions thread:
“Close the Untitled library that’s probably in your Movies folder.
Make a new library on the media drive that has the 72hours library and the media.
Quit the application.
In the Finder show package contents for the new library.
Then show package contents for the 72 Hours library.
Copy, don’t move, hold the Option key, make sure you copy the Opening event folder from the 72 Hours library bundle into the new library bundle, just as it appears in the 72 hours library. Don’t do anything in it.
In the new library trash the CurrentVersion.flexolibrary file.”
Launch FCP and open the new library.”
The project is still 3 minutes long and not 15 minutes.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Paul
Sydney, Australia
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1 Reply
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One thing i would do is use “OmniDiskSweeper” to sweep the discs
and see if there is is another large folder somewhere.
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