trashed prefs, fcp still crashing

[Shane Ross]

Open FCP with NO project file. Still crash?

If so, and you trashed prefs and repaired permissions, you can try to remove FCP and re-install it again, or go the drastic route and erase and install the OS and applications from scratch.

FCP was crashing on me too not to long ago, and erasing and installing was all that fixed it. Hopefully a reinstall of just FCP will fix things. Trash EVERYTHING FCP first.

[Steve Covello]

Are you missing a font? I went insane once because I moved a project from one machine to another and the project crashed no matter what I did because there were titles built with a font that did not exist on the 2nd machine and there was no way to have known that was the reason at the time.

Try also using Panther Cache Cleanner, or Tiger CC if that’s what you are on. Do Medium Cleaning on all levels. You can get it on versiontracker.com

steve covello
double wide post

[Tad Newberry]

no, FCP will open with no project, and will open some projects…but just not the one i really need right now! : ) from my PC days, the answer would be that “something” or “some file” that this project file uses has gotten corrupted which is crashing the program when it tries to open the file. i really think the problem is more with the project file than with FCP itself…but maybe not?

thanks for helping out a bonehead,

jtn

[Wreck Gar]

open up your “Capture Scratch” folder in your FCP Documents. See if there are any duplicate files in there with an extension that says -av at the end of the duplicate files. Delete those suckers, and it may fix your issues. I posted this today:

Name: WreckGar
Date: Nov 26, 2005 at 11:31:30 am
Subject: mysterious AV files that make your hard drive space vanish and other problems

I’ve read many posts in here about strange problems with FCP crashing, or taking up too much space.

This has happened to me 2 times before. After trashing prefs and user data, the problem still existed. I was able to open up the “Capture Scratch” folder and look at all the files I captured. There were 1 or 2 files in there that were duplicates . . except they had the extention like this (for example’s sake I’ll name the video files WreckGar):

WreckGar1
WreckGar2
WreckGar1-av
WreckGar2-av

Those duplicate -av files were funky and were what was causing all of my problems. I simply deleted them, and all my problems were over. Has this happened to anybody else? The main problems they cause for me was making my hard drive think it only had 2 MB of space left.

[Tad Newberry]

i’ve made a little progress here…

went back a ways in my autosave vault, and loaded a working project (though 2 days old). it loaded fine, but had to be re-directed to a few assets that i moved, getting ready to archive everything. it found everything, but came to a Motion project that had been “reconnected” to FCP, but the graphics themselves weren’t all there within the Motion project overlay. so i went into Motion, loaded that project file, and found IT was looking for assets as well…so i reconnected that stuff. most all was successful, except for an image sequence that is supposed to load into a layer of Motion. upon searching for this sequence, i directed it to the right folder, the files were all there, but ghosted – i couldn’t select any, so that sequence would not successfully re-connect to the Motion project, and therefore would not show up in FCP either.

anyone know how to reconnect an image sequence that is ghosted?

thanks for helping out a bonehead,

jtn