[Diana Mrazikova]

Hi, I had the same problem when I was organizing my older libraries that for no reason my projects would come up with bunch of “red files” and when I tried to relink them, everything was found but I was getting “Incompaticle file error” saying that the original file and new file have no shared media range. This didn’t make too much sense as I didn’t change anything. Been searching the threads, restarted computer… Nothing worked. Then I started playing around to try to fix it on my own and I did!!! (At least it works for me). I use Mac, so it worked for Mac… Not sure if FCP X comes also on the PC.

Here’s what I did – Instead of relinking the files in FCP X program I changed them manually within the LIBRARY PACKAGE in the FINDER – what is very easy to do.

1. Close FCP X
2. In your hardrive or where you have the FCP X LIBRARY with the problem stored, open it with a right click and select SHOW PACKAGE CONTENTS
3. When it opens go to ORIGINAL MEDIA folder and look through the media – all the ones that are not working in our FCPX will be showing broken – they show the file name, but they don’t work.
4. Hopefully you have another copy of these files somewhere else – I luckily did (not even knowing it would help in this case) and I just looked at the file name of the broken files and replaced the broken ones with the good files from my other location – (I copied it there, so it also stayes in the original location in case this happens again). I guess this would be a reason, to keep your original folder of all files that you have prior to start working in FCP X and not rely only on the files that are copied in the FCP X, because like in my case and probably some of your cases, something can go wrong, and this is really easy way to fix it.
Hope it works for you too! ? It saved me major headache.