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project won’t open! UNREADABLE!
Using FCP 5.1.4
So, Friday night I closed a project I was working on for months and shut down the computer for the weekend. Today I went to open the file and get a very scary error message after it gets about half way through reading project.:THIS PROJECT IS UNREADABLE OR MAY BE TOO NEW FOR THIS VERSION OF FINAL CUT.
Yikes! help! Nothing has changed over the weekend. How can this be? and most of all:
what can I do to solve this problem?
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9 Replies
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trash preferences (google it if you don’t know what that is)
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The backup from Friday night from the internal drive on the G5 won’t open either, and I trashed the prefs before I posted. Since that post I bought and ran Disc Warrior on the internal and external drives. I can’t get earlier projects to open either.
Anyone have other ideas?
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Other things to try, repair permissions on the boot drive through the disk utility.
and then if all else fails, read this long thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_thread.cgi?forumid=8&postid=940764&univpostid=939938
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So I had read that long post and a few others around the neighborhood, cleaned up the drives, tossed a bunch of render files but what actually seemed to work was logging on as someone new. Why would that work? Did my project have the Seventh Month Itch? Should I dye my hair too?
thanks so much Jeremy G – you are the man!
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Actually, it was sontora’s buddy that emailed him that fixed it.
AS far as your user file being corrupt, I have no idea. I would imagine it’s a permissions issue which is why I said to repair permissions.
The best way to do this is to boot from your MacOS install CD and run the repair permissions from there. Keep repairing until nothing else shows up.
Jeremy
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The good news is that it opens.
The bad news is it’s got a sequence with only 14 min of my 18 so I am going around the circle a few more times to other versions and opening them from other places with other system setting for scratch disks.The weird news is that I had to make believe I was someone else. Yes I tossed buckets of render files and cleaned up the drives and got rid of most was in the autosave vault, but I really think what worked was logging on as someone else – but WHY??? Did my project have a 7 month itch? Do I need to dye my hair now?
any ideas on the why?
and a million thanks for the cure – now if I can only get one with a longer sequence to ipen
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[Mary Perillo] “any ideas on the why?
“[JeremyG] “AS far as your user file being corrupt, I have no idea. I would imagine it’s a permissions issue which is why I said to repair permissions.
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I just had the same problem but solved it pretty quickly and easily. I think it was caused by not properly shutting down the entire system before doing anything with my external firewire box (canopus box). To solve this I shut down the computer, unplugged all firewire devices (external drives & canopus box) then restarted the computer while resetting the P-Ram.
– to reset P-Ram hold down the P,R, Command, & Option key all at once while restarting the computer. Wait for the computer to make the startup BONG sound at least 3 times before letting go of the 4 keys.
Once I had reset the P-Ram I trashed the Power Management P-List File. You can find this file here.
MAC HD -> Library -> Preferences -> System Configuration -> Power Management P-list file
After that was trashed I emptied the trash, shut down the computer, plugged my firewire devices back in and started up normally. Everything works fine after that.
Hope this helps,
Pete
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