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  • Operation not allowed: out of memory error msg

    Posted by John Corino on June 5, 2007 at 8:00 pm

    I was working on a project and all of the sudden an error popped up in my timeline saying operation not allowed: out of memory. I closed all programs and check my disk space, and everything checked out okay. I restarted and opened FCP and now I can’t open my sequence. It just gives me that operation not allowed message. I can open other sequences but just not the one I was working.
    Anyone know why this is?

    Thanks.

    Rafael Amador replied 18 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Greg Nosaty

    June 5, 2007 at 10:51 pm

    I can’t tell you why it happened but I think I can help you restore your project. Open FCP and go to the File menu, select restore project and select the last Autosave of the project.

    You could have some bad media or you may just be experiencing the same, unexplained “out of memory error” that many of us get regularly. What version of FCP? what computer and drives are you using? What kind of media are you editing? Maybe its just the full moon!

  • Rafael Amador

    June 6, 2007 at 12:11 pm

    Hi Corino,
    Open a new project and drag everything from the brownser of the old project to the new one. Save it and have a look if its works.
    To avoid those problems the best is to run now and them Diskwarrior or Techtools. Like that you may have “out of memory” once a year.
    cheers,
    rafael

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