project stays at 17 percent open forever

[Andy Mees]

try trashing renders (tools render manager)
try disconnecting / unmounting any and all the media locations (captured and imported media, gfx, renders etc)
try opening the project from within a new clean user account on the new mac

[David Roth weiss]

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[Matt Gerard]

[David Roth Weiss] “This is one of those perfect times for running Disk Warrior.”

Ditto. DW has saved my arse more times than I care to count. Anyone remember the old biege Avid SCSI drives? Almost a monthly occurance.

Anyway, try opening it without the media drives as mentioned. that usually works, as fcp is sometimes trying to relink stuff that it can’t find. Also check your plugin folder. I’ve had plugins go funky on me. remove any 3rd party plugins, and try to open it. As always, do all this testing on a COPY of your FCP file. No need to screw it up more by troubleshooting.

Since it opens on other boxes, your “freak out” level should be fairly minimal. try opening the project, make a small change so that FCP will make an autosave of it, then take that autosave to the troublesome machine and try to open that. Autosave makes completely new files when it saves, whereas the “save” function just updates the current file, which might have something wrong with it already.

Let us know what happens…

matt

Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…

[Adrian Salinas]

i did get the project to open without the media, and it asks me for some plugins, once y mount the drives and try to reconect the media it stays at 5 % and doesn’t do anything anymore, im going to try a fresh install, i cant think of anything else, thank you all

adrian

[Matt Gerard]

[adrian Salinas] “im going to try a fresh install”

Whoa, boy. Hold on, lets not go nuts, lets try some trouble shooting first off. If its the media that’s the problem, then a fresh install won’t help and you’ll have wasted 4 hours for nothing.

1) Put all your plugins back in place and see if it will open the project without the media drives hooked up. Works= then you knwo its the media not an issue with the software, which I don’t think it is because I’m assuming (maybe wrongly) that you have tried to open/create other projects to see if it will open them. Didn’t Work= Then it might pay to reinstall, but try trashing all prefs and all the prefs for your 3rd party plugins and reinstall the plugins.

2) take a look at the media on the media drive. Can you open the QT’s and view them? I had one editor send me a project with all the media files, but he had made them all reference files without knowing, and it was hell trying to figure that one out. Until I looked at the files sizes of the media files, and realized what was going on.

Try those and report back, this is an interesting problem. Would be nice to have a documented fix for it for others.

FWIW, the FCP application or any of its components rarely just “go bad” and need to be reinstalled. Its usually a 3rd party incompatability or your moving stuff and messing with stuff you normally wouldn’t. i’ve been guilty of that as well.

Good Luck!

matt

Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…

[Adrian Salinas]

thanks matt!, i was able to open the project with out the media drives, saved it as something else, and when i try to recconect it does the same thing, first i thought maybe it was graphics so i tried t connect music first, it worked, but as soon as i tried any video, nothing it stays at 3% i installed all the missing plug ins, and did not make a difference, maybe because i made a migration of the apps but not the main account and some stuff did not transfer, because i can perfectly open the project on my laptop, with the same media, i dont know, i think i am reinstalling, everithing, just to cancel that posibility, i also trahsed the preferences, i dont think there is reference media because i have the same project in 3 computers this is my mobile drive synced to my main box at work, and it works every were just not on my new mac pro…
any ideas

thank you all

Adrian

[Adrian Salinas]

I got it, I did do a fresh instal and now it all works fine, thanks again for the input
adrian