[David Watson]

Check the file sizes in each group. One will be much larger. I have guessed these to be the video and placed the others into the AUDIO folder. (My file recovery software put all files into one folder. I’m trying to sort the mfx files)
I still haven’t gotten fcp to read the mfx sound and video files.
How did you do that?

[David Watson]

Respectfully, this can’t be true. I have used jihosoft’s recovery program and gotten files back, with differing sizes. If the drive had been fully zeroed, there would be no data. Normally systems only remove the marks that show a machine how to find files. Without those marks, the machine is free to overwrite data. The fact that I actually found files indicates they were not zeroed, but only made vulnerable to being overwritten.
That said, I have been unable to recreate a workable file/folder structure that will allow these files to be read by Final Cut Pro.

[David Watson]

I bought the same software, had the same problem with it. This software does not create a file structure. It only recovers files. (This is expectable of file recovery software. It does not create a disk image.) I have not been able to get FCP 7 to recognize the data yet, but did get insight to how it might be done. Maybe someone can add to this and make this software actually useful. I spent 125 on it and no dice yet.

First I checked a folder containing a download from a known good P2 card, and noted the file structure.
I recreated the “Contents” folder and all of the folders within it.
Next I sorted the MFX files by size and moved all of the ones measured in “k” to the AUDIO file, and put all the ones measured in megabytes in the VIDEO folder. (I had discovered that the beginning of the MFX file names repeated several times, and guessed that the smaller files in each set were audio tracks.)
Using the known good folder as a template, I put the XML files in the CLIP folder, and the bmp files in the ICON folder.
Next I looked for a txt file. There was only one, with a long alphanumeric name. Assuming it to be the “LASTCLIP.TXT” file, I tried first moving it into the new main folder, at the same level as the CONTENTS folder. When FCP did not recognize all of this, I changed the txt file to read LASTCLIP.TEXT. FCP still did not recognize the folder.

Maybe someone has information that will complete this picture. If not, an expensive reshoot.

[David Watson]

The prefs file was the issue.

A little wary of a black box solution, I went to user/library/caches/com.apple.fcp/cache.db and renamed it cacheBAK.db first, but this (dumping the cache after making a backup) did not correct anything.

Found the prefs file and renamed it BAK, (with FCP NOT running), and when I started FCP it created a new prefs file. Configuring at the startup prompts and resetting my preferences to my project’s folders, I’m back in business.

To be sure I didn’t mess up my project (a film two years in the making) I tested the new settings on a new file, then an old but unimportant project.

Thanks for the pointer, Shane!
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[David Watson]

OK. When I point Log and Transfer at the folder with my video files (using the “custom path” button in the LT screen), FCP says:
—– “VIDEO” contains unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder whose directory structure matches supported media. —–
But then I backed out and pointed it to the folder that CONTAINS my “contents folder and the lastclip text file, and Whoot!

Thanks, that was a major roadblock.