Preference Manager Warning for 10.1

[Don Smith]

I launched Preference Manager just yesterday to delete preferences of FCPX 10.1. Preference Manager alerted me that there was a new version available so I updated it before deleting preferences. I had no issues with 10.1 after using Preference Manager to delete its preferences.

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[James Ewart]

Okay I did the same but it led to bad problems for me.

I could not browse different events. By default would not open all Libraries.

[Don Smith]

By deleting the Preferences using Preference Manager Final Cut forgets its recent list of opened Libraries. Just File > Open and browse to the Library you want. Am I missing something?

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[Jon Chappell]

We’re aware of this and are planning a blog post but haven’t had time to post it yet.

When resetting preferences (whether manually or with Preference Manager) FCPX forgets which libraries it should load. You can specify them by going to File > Open Library > Other > Locate and browsing for it.

I would say that in my experience FCPX’s library code is pretty buggy though, so you may be the victim of bugs related to that, but those issues are issues you will experience with or without Preference Manager.

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[James Ewart]

Well yes and no…usually when you “Open “Library” it presents you with a window and a list of drives and Libraries within those drive.

But with me nothing I had to locate them and then once I opened them the browser was kind of stuck. If I selected different Events or Libraries the clips on view did to reflect the Event or Library selected.

But all well after a reinstall of FCPX.

[James Ewart]

Okay thanks.

So technically speaking an FCPX bug then?

There were bound to be one or two.

[Mark Dobson]

I’ve had no problems using Preference Manager with 10.1

( apart from re-linking Libraries which is a right pain )

In my experience I would say that Preference Manager is actually working better now as, after Mavericks, I had a problem deleting the FinalCut.LSSharedFileList, that involved restarting the computer and then trashing that. ( probably nothing to do with Preference Manager and more to do with 10.1 and Mavericks.

Either way great support for this free piece of software from Jon Chappell. I couldn’t count how many times I’ve used it over the last 2 years.

[James Ewart]

“Either way great support for this free piece of software from Jon Chappell. I couldn’t count how many times I’ve used it over the last 2 years.”

Absolutely agree…great product…made life so much easier.

Of course I cannot say with absolute certainty that it was not something stupid I did.

Sounds like FCPX does not like having it’s preferences trashed with the app or on the finder.

[Bret Williams]

I don’t know about other issues you may have had, but the list of libraries is nothing more than a list of recently opened libraries. You should expect that list to disappear after trashing your preferences. There is not central database of libraries. You can store them wherever you want. If someone gives you a library and you copy it to your drive, don’t expect it to be in the list until you’ve opened it. I generally open libraries just like legacy. From the finder by double clicking on it.

[James Ewart]

Perhaps you are right

I am referring to this window which I was used to seeing.

Upon relaunch all that happened was it opened a new Library on the internal drive. Maybe this is normal after trashing prefs but it did not behave this way when I first installed and launched it

The main point is that for me the software became unusable after this somewhat unusual behaviour none of which occurred prior to trashing prefs. Effectively frozen.

Deleted FCPX. Reinstalled and all is well.

Now I’m no rocket scientist but…