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Reinstallign FCP while in the middle of a project
I am in the middle of a big project and am experiencing numerous problems with FCP HD 4.5 that cause it to keep on crashing whilst capturing, and in turn corrupting my external harddrive and preventing me from using it. After experiencing this for weeks, I think the only option left to me is to reinstall FCP.
– Should I uninstall my current FCP HD program and then reinstall, or should I just reinstall it over the current version?
– VERY IMP: In either of the above cases, will I lose work/file connections by reinstalling?
– If I reinstall FCP HD to my computer, but my project is on the external drive, when I click the project in the external drive to open FCP is it likely to recorrupt whatever is the problem in the first place?
FCP HD 4.5 – installed on computer
Powerbook G4
Capture to external harddrive – Promax DVbox 320GB’s
Project stored on the external harddrive.Thanks for any help in advance,
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You should burn any project files you have to a CD or put them on a flash drive. Anything so that you have back-ups.
You should also keep your media drive disconnected during all of this.
If you follow both of those rules I’d think you’d be fine. Do you have any preferences that you’ve set? Like, have you put any transitions inta the “Favorites” bin or anything like that? You’ll lose stuff like that. Alghthough it’s POSSIBLE to back up those kinds of preferences I’d suggest not doing that. It’s possiblea you’ll back-up whatever the problem is. Just take a look at what you’ve got set and maybe write it all down so you can re-create what you want later.
I wouldn’t worry about the projects messing stuff up later…it’s possible, I guess, but not very likely.
I would trash the application first, then search the hard drive for any other folders with “Final Cut” in the name and trash those too. Then re-load everything from the original disks. Don’t forget to run system updator when you’re done. Then plug your media drive back in. It’s possible you’ll have to manually re-connect some media once everything’s back up but you’ll only have to do that once, it shouldn’t be a big deal.
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Thanks John. Great help.
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Always a good idea to run permissions fixer after a major new intall…
Ron
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