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video clips keep exchanging names and contents and going offline
hello all,
I have a weird problem: every time I open my project, more and more clips are going offline — clips imported from a single folder. when trying to reconnect I discovered few things:
#1. sometimes fcp (FCp 7.0.2, btw) will say 12 files are offline but list only 3-4 when i want to reconnect.
#2.Sometimes none at all.
#3. Sometimes it’ll show a completely different file than the ones that are actual showing offline on the browser bins.what’s worse is that I went into the trouble folder in the HDD and the clips are randomly exchanging their titles and contents!
I tried trashing my prefs, openning a new project,etc but nothing helped and more and more files started going offline every time.
could this be a hard drive problem–corrupt files or something?
I’m using a goflex 2Tb. thankfuly i had a backup of the folder on another HDD so i tried to replace only the specific problem files at first. but next time i open fcp, new and different files go rogue.
Then i replaced the entire folder from my backup hdd and that works for a little bit but then the problem starts again.
I would really appreciate the help. thank you.
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2 Replies
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It sounds like you have multiple files with the same names. Did you rename the master files after import or reset your camera file name sequence? If you reset your camera you may have the same file names as some of your older files. Which camera are you using?
Apple Certified Master Pro FCS 2
Sony EX-3
MacBook Pro -
For posterity : In the end the only thing that worked was copying all the files from a seperate backup hard drive i had (which had a copy of the problem folder with all the files0 and just having it on the hard drive of the mac i was using and editing it from there.
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