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Total FCPX Crash – X does not recognize any plug ins anymore
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I had a similar situation where oddities and anomalies cropped up while using FCP X. The symptoms were different than what you are experiencing (my issues were things like the skimmer not working, open libraries would be closed and closed libraries would be open on close/relaunch, transform and crop areas in inspector were blank, etc.) I had two separate systems exhibit this same odd behavior but was working on separate drives and libraries. Repairing permissions, trashing preferences had no effect.
Like you, though, the same problematic libraries and FCPX in general, worked fine under a new user. However, like you, I didn’t want to have to go through the tedious process of replicating the User that had been working. What did work for me was to rebuild my user account. This retains your settings, etc. but clears the user files that are stored in /var/db/dslocal/.
I followed the procedure found here:
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-rebuild-a-user-account-in-os-x/After doing that on both systems I am back up and running as I was prior to things going sideways in FCP X. No idea if this will solve your issues but I thought I’d throw it out there.
Jon
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/var/db huh? Wasn’t aware of that user-specific folder. If that’s the case, maybe the culprits could be found in these 2 folders (any file with the name FinalCut)
/var/db/BootCaches/C846C685-FEE2-4996-B4DE-357A7B53234E
/private/var/db/BootCaches/C846C685-FEE2-4996-B4DE-357A7B53234E/(of course back these up before deleting, etc.)
Jerome Raim
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Will it work for Hackintosh?
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Jerome,
I didn’t look into it much further. I had two systems that weren’t working properly so I carbon copied my HD on one machine and gave it a shot. It worked so I proceeded to use the same method on the other system. If you read the link that I posted in the earlier thread the author explains what is housed in that directory:
The reason for this is the directory structure that defines the account and its capabilities is stored within the hidden /var/db/dslocal/ directory, unlike other system and user settings that are within preferences folders either in the global or user library folders.
Once it worked I just went back to editing…
jon
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I can’t say one way or the other. The two systems I was working with were a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro. I haven’t built a hackintosh so I don’t know what would be different.
I did run Carbon Copy Cloner before doing the procedure the first time so I had a fall back plan.
jon
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Nothing in /private, but in /var, one file, deleted it, and restarted. Nothing, same same :-((((((
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Did not help either.
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Sorry to hear that. I just thought it might be worth a try…
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If a new user is working, it might be easiest to migrate to that new user and save yourself the time of trying to fix the corrupted one.
Just curious, but was this a fresh OS install?
Jeremy
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