Chris Duke
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Brilliant! I finally got around to trying this and it worked!!
I had previously just duplicated the existing layer (Title Background) which didn’t do anything other than duplicate the problem 🙂
Thank you so much for helping me with this, Mark! I’ve been battling it for 5+ episodes now… this is going to save me a lot of time!
You rock!
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Yes, it started life as a Title project, and I don’t recall deleting the placeholder but it’s been so long that I may have. I’m emailing my project to you… and can’t thank you enough for taking a look at it!
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Mark, thank you for taking the time to respond. I watch your videos all the time! I don’t have any drop zones that are exposed.. just text. Just for fun, I tried to right-click and “Make Clone Layer” (K) above the one you see as “Title Background” but that didn’t change anything.
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How do you turn off archiving? I don’t see an option, nor do I understand that “feature”. I’m using CCC to (once a day) copy all the new and changed files from one HD to another. That’s it–it’s a simple need. I don’t need any bells and whistles and there’s this “_CCC Archives” folder on the backup drive that is not needed.
In this case, it MOVED my VoiceOver*.aif files from my active FCPX folder to the “_CCC Archives” folder on my backup drive. The files, therefore, did not exist where they should have been in either place. For backup software to be moving files off my primary work HD (source of the files, not the backup) should absolutely never happen.
I did upgrade to a newer version of CCC yesterday and last night’s backup didn’t repeat the behavior. If this happens again, I’m finding other software to use. I’m just glad it wasn’t FCPX 🙂
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I found them, and it’s not FCPX’s fault.
I have some software that runs once per day called Carbon Copy Cloner. It copies all of the new/changed files from my “FCP” drive to my “FCP Backup” drive. For some reason it felt obligated to put them all in a “_CCC Archives” folder on my “FCP Backup” (not my active drive for editing). I have no idea why this happened, as the software has been reliable up til now.
Looks like I need to find better software to do this.
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Now that was a novel idea. Why didn’t I think of that? 🙂 Thank you!
I did just that and it put it in Final Cut Events, my project folder, then under Original Media as “VoiceOver-93.aif”. That’s where I was looking for the lost voiceover sound files. That is the only .aif in there though — something ate the ones I made last night!
I also checked the “Original Media” folders of my other projects, just in case–found nothing there. They have vanished!