Brion Dinges
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Thank you Jeff. It appears that there was a simple solution – although it all seemed a bit bizarre to me. Apparently, after I boot up – with the external drive disconnected – and THEN I connect it to the computer after it booted up – it recognized the external drive with all the files. Needless to say, I backed it up immediately after this happened. Hope this helps anyone else who might experience the same problem with an external drive. Appreciate the links you sent – always good to have.
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Thank you! I’ll give it a try.
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I did check if I had rendered files in my drive…hidden amongst ‘lost+found’ were many, but I already transfered that file along with many others to my external drive. I have 21.83 GB (out of 200GB) on my main (boot) drive. I have 25.5GB available on my media drive (also 200GB) and my external drive has 362.27GB (out of 500GB).
I trashed FCP HD preferences but it still crashes at same point on FCP HD.
I stopped keeping auto-saves a while ago because it took up a lot of room on the drive.
I did open the old FCP 4 and when I tried to open the project it says “can’t open project because there is a corrupt file” or something to that effect. I’m not sure how else to find the ‘corrupt’ file. I do notice that I have 4 sub folders (on main drive) called “previous system” could more be hidden in them? Each folder has the full list of file folders found on the main drive. I never thought a mac would make me look for a needle in a haystack (but I still love my mac).
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I did do that, dragged the entire media drive to trash. When I then opened FCP HD it crashed at the same place “preparing video for display” (after completely loading the project). The only other drive is my boot-up drive…is it safe or do I have to do anything different with that drive to unmount it? Thanks for reply.
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Thanks for that. I did put the media, chunk by chunk, into another drive and deleted it out of the media drive. It had no effect on trying to open it. When I open it, it still downloads all the file and at the final moment of “preparing to display video” it crashes. Is there anything I can do directly with FCP HD? I feel it might a problem related to that. Any help will be appreciated, I’m felling rather desperate at this point.
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I did repair permissions on both drives and it seemed to move it along. Now when I open it, it takes about 2 minutes and it loads everything and just as it says “preparing video for display” FCP crashes. On the drive that holds all the media I did ‘repair permissions’ and it does so but gives me a message that “1 permission could not be repaired’. I’ve tried re-installing FCP but that doesn’t seem to help. Any suggestions? Thanks for the reply.
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Thanks for this….I actually ended up finding a corrupt file just at the mid point as you pointed out. Good to know for the future!
~Brion~