X has lost it’s mind

[Jeremy Garchow]

In my case, I can’t move to Mavericks quite yet due to software incompatibility.

I like to wait until at least .1 anyway with new OS software.

[Bret Williams]

I have no idea if my issues were due to mavericks, an unstable font, a corrupt library file, who knows? Mavericks ran just fine for awhile. And it’s running fine now with the new user account.

[James Ewart]

I see thanks,

Isn’t it a bit of a “hoo haa” trashing the original user account after you have set up a new one?

Why is that such a oft recommended trouble shooting thing…what exactly happens when you do that?

best

James

http://www.jamesewart.co.uk

[Andy Nickless]

I had the exact same problem with snapping and other issues – like the viewer background randomly defaulting to checkerboard even though it still said Black in prefs.

I trashed the prefs, reinstalled the application (using Apple instructions) and repaired permissions (from the recovery drive) all to no avail.

I did a proper clean reinstall and everything ran smoothly so I thought I’d cracked it but after a while, snapping remained stuck (sometimes on and sometimes off) and other minor issues crept back.

This went on for weeks and was driving me mad, so eventually, in despair, I cleared and partitioned a drive on the MacPro and installed a totally clean version of Mavericks on it together with FCP X and Compressor (plus a few others such as FX Factory).

I then set that system drive up to my taste, with nothing in the dock except the tools I need to edit video. I named the drive FCP-Only.

I then cloned that drive to another so that I will always have a backup “Clean” System drive with FCP X on it and called it FCP-Clean. The entire system takes up 10.3 GB on a drive, so it’s smaller than a lot of my video files. I even have a second backup on a USB SD Card!

My original drive is still operational – but purely for all the other applications which are not video related. It’s a bit of an inconvenience having to restart the Mac and hold down the Option key if I want to change to the other system (or remember to change the Startup Disk in Preferences before restarting) but things have run near perfectly for weeks now and I’m really glad I took this action.

I’m sure others will say I used a sledgehammer to crack a nut, but it’s worth it – EVERYTHING works – and if (sometime in the future) it doesn’t, all I need to do is clone the “Clean” drive back onto the FCP-Only drive (takes about SIX MINUTES using SuperDuper) and I have a fresh install again!

Not only am I able to toggle snapping on and off, but all the other minor issues have disappeared and I’m sure FCP X runs faster too.

Lastly, the loss of toggling snapping first happened when I was running Lion, then Mountain Lion. I’d hoped Mavericks would fix it but it didn’t.
Andy

[Lance Lipman]

Brett,

Was in a week-long edit recently and my editor had the same issues, snapping, etc. He had a long tech support phone call with Apple and eventually had to trash his entire user pref folder. Tried reinstalling and everything else first, but deleting Prefs folder contents solved the problem. Inconvenient, but successful.

LL

[Paul Francis]

I am on Lion, and have started having the same skimming issue whereby it is permanently on.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Sometimes, toggling the position tool will help unstick the skimmer. Also, double check the clip skimming status.

[James Branch]

I had the same problem yesterday after updating to Mavericks and installing 10.1. Skimmer not working, no snapping among other things. Trashing prefs didn’t work neither did deleting and re-installing FCPX.

FCPX worked fine on a new user account so I was on the verge of a complete re-install of the whole machine. I then tried Digital Rebellion’s Pro Maintenance Tools ‘Housekeeper’ app. Performed a comprehensive clean of all ProApps, emptied the trash, restarted and all now works perfectly.

Hope this works you.

Cheers

James

[Andy Nickless]

I downloaded Pro Maintenance Tools Trial and neither the “Housekeeping” App nor “Quick Fix” managed to cure the snapping (and numerous other) faults on my FCP X system.

Maybe I did something wrong – I’ll keep trying the various apps within the package and report my findings here.
Andy

I’ve taught you all I know, and still you know nothing.