Total FCPX Crash – X does not recognize any plug ins anymore

[Sascha Engel]

No, I am running this system on my Hackintosh since half year, mostly totally fine.
If I migrate to new account, is this painless? How would I do that? Will I have to reinstall all my plug ins and everything again or not?
What about the option to start the system from external boot partition and recover from TM?

Thanx.

Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Sascha Engel] “If I migrate to new account, is this painless? How would I do that? Will I have to reinstall all my plug ins and everything again or not?”

It’s not exactly painless. There might be some reinitiating of serial numbers and such. I don’t know exactly what you have on your machine, do it’s hard to tell you exactly what will happen.

This has some good guidelines: https://support.apple.com/kb/TS4053?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Troubleshooting an issue like this can be bring about a huge time waste. If a new user is working, I would start to try and migrate everything towards that user and leave the old user behind.

The other option is a complete reinstall, which also takes time, but is very thorough.

I don’t have any Hackintosh experience, so I don’t know what that entails. These days with the AppStore and other cloud services, a reinstall is not as painful as it used to be.

Jeremy

[Andreas Kiel]

Sascha,

There might be more com.apple.FinalCut.plist files. Here an example:

com.apple.FinalCut.plist.1imNFpc
com.apple.FinalCut.plist.7QAaP3r
com.apple.FinalCut.plist.bvqlrcc
com.apple.FinalCut.plist.hrZz0Yi
com.apple.FinalCut.plist.K9kb6pB
com.apple.FinalCut.plist.pUIixS5
com.apple.FinalCut.plist.Rek3Pyq
com.apple.FinalCut.plist.YyE7jU5
com.apple.FinalCut.plist
com.apple.FinalCut.LSSharedFileList.plist

All those with the cryptic extension after the .plist are saved from a crash as backup.
So even if you deleted the current com.apple.FinalCut.plist FCPX will search for the last saved prefs file and use it – and this pref file might be bad.
Remove all of them.

Next step is to look where you 3rd party plugins are installed.
It might be in the user folder (which I always think is a bad idea) or it might be in “/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro”. Check the latter one for read/write permissions.

-Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Sascha Engel]

Dear Jerome, Jon, Jeremy (wow, how many Js!) and Andreas (da kann ich auch Deutsch sprechen mit Dir ;-),

Thanx for all your inout and serious attempts to help. It was really touching and the only things that made me feel good in all this.
I tried EVERY possible thing (including what Andreas suggested in the last post), but nothing worked.
It’s a nasty bug in X – the HIV of Mac I’d say.
In the end I booted from USB stick and restored my entire drive from TM.
All seems to work ok so far and FCPX is up and running.

I still would like to know one day, what this crazy thing might have been.

All the Best guys and Muchos Gracias again!

Greetings,

Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang