Sharing Library and merging metadata.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Maybe you consolidated IN instead of out?

I also should have mentioned to move your cache, and that can be done by selecting the Library, checking out the inspector and click “modify settings” and choose a different cache location outside of the Library.

Fcpx will ask you to keep all the files or just the ones you’re currently using, and you can make the choice on what’s best.

[Mark Smith]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Maybe you consolidated IN instead of out?”

Both the Cache files and the media files are outside the library which is what I want. I might have consolidated ‘in’ by mistake though I thought I was consolidating in the other direction. I wish there was something like a flight at a recorder for FCPX in situations like this so I could go back over the keystrokes and choices i made and learn something from my errors.

It all seems to be patched up just fine now after a comb through the clips to find the random ones that were stored inside the library and relink to external media.

I do like the way the Library cleans itself up after re linking clips to external media. I thought there would be a extra step to actually go thru the library and delete the clips that had wound up in the library by accident but once I relinked, the media clips inside the library disappeared. Boom.