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usr/share/terminfo/75/unknown
Hello to all,
A clip has gone offline. When I tried the “Reconnect Media” command I was prompted to try linking the clip to the following link: usr/share/terminfo/75/unknown. When I click on my harddrive and try to find the file or do a search it does not show up on my computer. Does anyone know what this phantom link is? And what should I do about it, if anything?
Also, 2 nights ago my computer crashed with a translucent gray screen. I could see the desktop, through the translucent gray screen, however everything was frozen. There was a dialog box saying I need to restart my computer by holding down the restart button — in 3 different languages. This has never happened before. Any thoughts on this? I restarted with no problems.
Thanks in advance,
LishaDual 1Ghz PowerPC G4
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I had to replace a primary system drive in a Dual Processor 1.42Ghz G4. It took about three months for the S.M.A.R.T. drive to go dumb, but the symptoms were identical. This could be a broken or corrupt directory structure.
I would get a firewire drive right away and clone your internal drive to the firewire drive with software like Bombich Software: Carbon Copy Cloner. That way if your primary drive goes south you can boot off you firewire drive.
If you are unfamiliar with the insides of Mac’s and harddrives, you need to read this article because is list the most well known disk utilities Mac Maintenance, Part 1: Protect Your Hard Drive and Data. The article discusses journaling but you need to know that you DON’T want to use journaling on an FCP media drive.
You need to backup your most important data before trying to run any of these utilities. The first utility you want to run is in the Apple Utilities folder called Disk Utility. You want Verify Disk Premissions and Repair Disk Permissions.
The article discusses multiple partitions on the harddrive–one for the system and one for your data. I recommend a primary physical drive and a seperate backup bootable drive, but that is just me. You FCP media drive should be a third physical drive.
You need to get friendly with someone that knows the inside of Mac’s very soon.
HTH,
BryceDon’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…
PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
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This is an older more geeky article but you definitely need to read it TidBITS: Shootout at the Disk Repair Corral
HTH,
BryceDon’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…
PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion -
I’ve seen this happen a lot. Sometimes a file loses its connection to the original media and will list its source path as “unknown”
When you tried to reconnect the file, it automatically searched your hard drive and found a file called “unknown.” This file is normally hidden and is part of the system install, there is nothing wrong with it being there.
You need to check the name of the bad clip in the timeline, select “reconnect media” and enable “select file manually”. In the dialog box that comes up, turn off “matched name only” and manually locate the file on your hard drive and reconnect.
I don’t know what causes this situation to happen, but I know it usually is fairly easy to fix with the above method.
The other error you mentioned is called a “kernel panic,” (Try googling it). If it just happened once, you probably don’t need to do anything, but if it starts occuring more frequently, something may probably wrong with your machine.
Matt Lyon
CORE Feature Animation
Toronto
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