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Seemingly corrupt Project that can’t be accessed…!
I was working from an external hard drive on my fcpx project, when FCPX had to be force quit. Upon reopening the application opened as a blank gray screen, not displaying my Events or Project Library. I reinstalled the software thinking that could be the problem, but it still gave the gray screen. I then figured out that by clicking on Window/ Revert to Original Layout I could restore the layout of FCPX, and get past the gray screen. However, this did not help bring my Projects or Events to their respected Library.
Then when opening my project final cut began reading/loading each of my events, until it got to my project that then gave me the colorful beach ball of death for a really long time. At this point I had no choice except to force quit the application. This happened multiple times and is still happening when I try to open my project. I can now open and access my events, but the Project freezes it up every time.
I know that FCPX auto saves a version every 15 minutes and so am wondering if there is a way to access that archive, restore a previous version (hopefully not losing a lot of work) and reopen my project. I know this can be found under documents/ AutoSaveVault but I can’t find that folder on my external, as everything is saved at the root level.
PLEASE give me any advise you can, I feel like I have tried everything.
Computer version: MacBook Pro 10.6.8- snow leopard
File Type – Codecs: CurrentVersion.fcpproject
Length of project: nearly 15 minutes long; with around 80 – 100 hours of time spent
The only backup was done with final cut pro through auto saving -
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While I hope someone else has got better ideas, here is what I would start with:
– first make a backup of the disk containing the faulty project before trying to start up FCPX. From what I understand FCPX only keeps one backup meaning that if FCPX should succeed to open your project but it contains errors (or worse: is empty) then FCPX will overwrite the backup of your “problematic-but-potentially-recoverable” version of your project.
– After the backup … can you open the project on another computer with the same version of FCPX? If so then there still seems to be a problem with your software installation and not the data on the drive.
– The backup should be in root/Final Cut Projects/your-projectname/Backups/
If there is any backup there, replace the “CurrentVersion.fcpproject” file in root/Final Cut Projects/your-projectname/ with the backup file and rename it to the same name. (After you made the backup of the disk!)
Note: I haven’t tried this but I would suspect this is how you “activate” and old backup-version again.– If this doesn’t help I would still suspect it’s the project file that causes the error. Maybee clearing the /Render Files/ folder can help, before starting FCPX.
– As a last solution I would try to move away any event-file from the disk, that is in use by the project and then start FCPX. If you’re lucky then maybee there is a serious problem with one of the event files and you could then try to bring them back to your disk in groups and restart FCPX to see when you get the spinning beach ball again.
… none of this is tested, but this is what I would try.
And again … I hope someone else has better advice.
Good luck!
// Petter
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The autosave vault for FCP X is not in that location. Assuming your projects and events were on the external drive, The backup is in:
[External drive] -> Final Cut Projects -> [Project Name] -> Backups
[ ] indicate variables, e.g. drive name, project name. The event backup is along a similar path but Final Cut Events.
Before you try that though download Digital Rebeillion’s pref manager and trash the prefs in case anything is wrong there.
Also – is the external drive mounting OK? Can you see the Final Cut Event and Project folders in the root dir of the drive?
Good luck!
Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor
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