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“unable to read file”
Hi, been working on my project for over a month. Tried to open project today and at 4% into reading project got the above message.
I repaired permissions, trashed prefs, disk utilities, tried other computers with different versions and any other trick I could think of or read about.
Any ideas?
Thanks
T
(p.s. My apologies if this posted twice)
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3 Replies
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Hi Tucker,
You have a corrupted project file. Sorry… it will probably NEVER open. BUT just go to your autosave vault and start opening the projects starting with the latest saved until one opens, then do a save as and overwrite your bad project file, this should get you up and running again.
Hope this helps
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com -
Richard,
Thanks for the response.
Follow up question:
What are the most likely causes to a file corruption of this type?
My file was up to around 14Mb on an older system with not much RAM.
Should I perhaps avoid bloating my FCP files?
Thanks,
Tucker
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Boy, I am not sure what causes corruption the FCP project file. Honestly, I have not, “knock on wood”, had this happen in a really long time. I would say since my upgrade to 6, a couple of years ago.
My Project files can commonly reach 15 or 16 MB so I dont think a bloated project file is the problem. What version of FCP are you running and what ver of OSX and processors do you have? Maybe, if yours is older (V5 of FCP or pre intel MAC?) , that may be the issue but really I just don’t know.
Maybe someone else here can give you a better answer.Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com
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