[Gregory Plotkin]

John –

You’re a genius!

Thank you for your simple solutuion.

I had a similar problem and your solution saved me about 10 hours of work (which is a whole week for me — I take a lot of breaks 🙂

So if anyone has this problem it works like a charm.

I’m adding this post, because there are lots of older posts and video tutorials that don’t work any more as FCPX has been updated a few times. I hope this is helpful…

My situation was this:

I was editing a project on my 2012 MacBookPro using FCPX.

I updated the operating system to Maverick (on March 3, 2014)

Today (March-4-2014) I opened FCPX and the Library was empty and the project was gone.

When I located the project in the default folder and clicked it, a Warning Window opened that said, ‘The document “20140302-103654-EST.fcpevent” could not be opened. Open documents from within Final Cut Pro.’

There wasn’t any way (that I could find) to open the project from the File Menu in FCPX anymore for some reason.

I thought I would have to restart the whole project and then I found John’s post (thanks again).

So I created a new EVENT and a new PROJECT (using the same name). I copied the name [CTRL+C]

I closed FCPX

Then I pasted the name in Spotlight and the 2 new Folders FCPX created showed-up (one folder for the EVENT and one folder for the PROJECT)

I opened them one at a time. Selected the project file and the 3 folders FCPX created (Backups, Original Media and Render Files), Deleted them. Then I selected the those files from my original Event and moved them to replace the ones I just deleted

NOTE: I also emptied the trash, not sure if it was necessary though — Also, the option to copy wasn’t available, so you have to move the files.

Then I repeated the process for the PROJECT Folder.

I opened FCPX and to my amazement all the files were there as well as the project and all the elements in the timeline.

Thank you John (and thank you Jesus :-D)