PLEASE help! FCP file is corrupted and now wont open Muhammad Ali documentary

[Felix Bueno]

Hi

I don’t understand whether the corrupted files are the media files or the project file.

If the project file is corrupted just search in your scratch disk, there is a folder named “Autosave Vault”. FCP keep there copies of your last opened projects every 30 minutes.

But if the media file is corrupted, the only way is trying to recover the disk data with specialized software, but it is dangerous. Norton Disk Doctor for example could fix it.

Hope it helps…

Felix

[Profoundlogic]

Dear Felix,

They are the Project files. The FCP icon for a project that is. No idea why it has happened but I will check for this vault file when I go in today.

All the project files have been corrupted that were on this disk (ie for other projects too) but they were not open when I unhooked the external drive from the machine so I dont know why this has happened.

Thanks for all your help!

Best, Tina

[Walter Biscardi]

[Profoundlogic] “I know that the files are on a external drive which I shutdown without dragging the icon to the trash. I dont think the files are actually corrupted.”

Your Project files should NEVER be on an external drive and yes, you could have damaged them when you shut it down without ejecting. Project files should only be on your internal drive and definitely not on any drives that have media.

I would run a Repair Disk Permissions on that external drive to see if that fixes it and if not, purchase Disk Warrior and run it on there, though that may cause more issues than it fixes if there is media also on that drive.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Eli Mavros]

You didn’t happen to try to open the project in an earlier verion of FCP did you? Whenever you try to open an FCP5 project in FCP4.5 it will give you the corrupt file message. The only way you can do this successfully is with XML. I am pretty sure that this is not the case…but I figured I would throw it out there just in case.

Best,
Eli

Eli Mavros

[Profoundlogic]

thanks for that but no, it is the same version!

[Kevin Monahan]

Were all the auto-save copies corrupted? No project files uploaded to the internet or iDisk? Did you do any recent work on another machine? Maybe there is a copy of the project in that machine’s autosave vault?

Besides that, the only help I can offer you is in this article: https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/restore_corrupted_project.html

If nothing suggested in the article works, I’d say you probably need to start re-editing this piece. Unfortunately, it’s the price you pay if you rely upon a single digital file with no workable backup. It’s a painful lesson to learn for sure.

Kevin Monahan
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[Alexander Serpico]

Are you really saying that a disk must be ejected before shutdown?

I was positive this was a huge misconception among novices, since the OS unmounts all drives on shutdown anyway.

Or is this just best practice?

[Kevin Monahan]

Alexander. It’s true that you have to unmount in my experience. The only time I’ve screwed up the directory on my drives is when I have not.

Kevin Monahan
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[Alexander Serpico]

i guess ive just been lucky for the last seven years…. although i guess i do know some people who have not.