Relink Problem – Event Online, Seemingly Random Clips in Project Offline

[Jeremy Garchow]

That, my friend, is tangible evidence.

Good work and make sure you report exactly that to Apple.

[Matt Trubac]

Mixed news. I still don’t know exactly what caused this, but exporting and importing an xml brought all of my media back online! The downside is that the filters on the clips that were missing have all been reset (native and third party).

Filters are still set on the original project.. so I guess I might be doing a lot of copy and paste of my color and curve settings from the missing clips in my original project to the recovered project.

I’m working with Apple and am hopeful they can at least determine a cause and it gets fixed someday.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Thank you for the update.

Really good to know that trick.

[Andreas Kiel]

A bit late here,

I discovered some time ago that changed paths are not saved in the SQL databases and FCPX tries to do it’s own “repair”. So this might work or not.
Using the XML route will use the “internal” repair but will loose most if not all of the filter settings.

Another thing I found by chance is to make everything offline using Finder, detach disks etc.
Then launch FCPX and every missing media will be listed and saved in the SQL files together with a reason why it is not found.
Quit FCP and make the media available again.
Next time you start FCPX it will analyze those database entries and will try to repair, but in this case it will update and save all media paths within the SQL files.

-Andreas

-Andreas

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