“This project is unreadable…” error message (I’ve tried ALL the troubleshooting methods)

[Willy Lavendel]

I seem to be having a hard time finding this:

MAC HD -> Library -> Preferences -> System Configuration -> Power Management P-list file

Any suggestions?

Willy

Willy Lavendel
“Is this for real?” “No, only in the movies”

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Willy,
I have it right there.
For any chance are you looking on user/library/preferences…/
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Willy Lavendel]

Thank you.

I found a sneaky way that worked perfectly.

Open FCP with the original external running and have a new external connected. Copy the project file in the new external and open it from there. It opens no problem, no error. Then save the project on the original external with a NEW NAME. Close FCP and open the new project name and voila! Patched.

Worked for me!

Willy

Willy Lavendel
“Is this for real?” “No, only in the movies”

[Willy Lavendel]

So, it happened again and now I’m pretty frustrated. I figured it out last time so I can probably do it again but I need to know what caused it so it doesn’t keep happening.

It was mentioned above that is might have to do with “not properly shutting down the entire system before doing anything with my external firewire box (canopus box).”

If this is the case perhaps there is protocol I am not doing that bumps the externals the wrong way.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Willy

Willy Lavendel
“Is this for real?” “No, only in the movies”

[Peter Rudolfi]

Willy when you say ‘original external’ are you referring to an external hard drive, and, connecting a second external hard drive to complete the process you describe? I too have this bizarre message ‘this project is unreadable or may be too new for this version of Final Cut’. It came up directly after saving a 3 minute FCE4 project to an external hard drive. using FCE 4.0.1, iMac OSX 10.6.6.

Please clarify so I can possibly retrieve 6 hours of creative time!

Peter Rudolfi

[Eliana Martínez]

I was going through the same problem and I reseted my computer doing P-RAM. Opened the hard drive, duplicated the project and it worked!

Not sure if this is the best solution but it just worked for me. It has been happening a lot lately but this time my temporary file didn’t have all the changes I made, so I really had to try hard to recuperate this one.

Thanks for all your help always!

Eliana Alvarez
Filmmaker/Cinematographer
https://www.elianaalvarez.com

[Brianna O’donohue]

Hiya,

I ran into this problem awhile ago and found Peter Campbell’s fix worked (thank you Peter!!!!)

BUT.

Now its happening again, and this fix nore any of the other fixes have worked.

Anyone have any new suggestions? :-/ I now have a 5 year project in its final stages that I cannot access! Argh!

UPDATE: I opened the file with all the hard drives disconnected, and found it opened. SO it was just a matter of then reconnecting hard drives and re-linking once file was open 🙂