[Joe Seliski]

just lost seven hours – crashed as i was saving – for this i miss FCP7
Premiere really must update this

[Joe Seliski]

Where are you storing Media cache? ON MEDIA DRIVE IN A FOLDER
Where are previews stored? SAME AS PROJECT
How is the RAID formatted (filesystem used, RAID–How many drives and how is it configured)? MAC OS EXTENDED JOURNALED 6 DRIVES RAID5

If you cannot open the project there are 2 things I can see as possible root causes. First, your drives may have errors on them or damaged blocks where the file resides. Repair the drive using a disk check or a repair in mac os.DONE
Second, if the settings of the file show that the media cache and caching are on a volume that isn’t your main drive or isn’t formatted HFS+ with a GUID partition table, you may be running into memory caching errors, as the files need to have the same permissions structures and values as your user account in order to be able to move to memory. ON A HFS+ DRIVE

Try the drive repair first, and if that doesn’t work, try creating a new file and set your caching to your documents folder, then import one sequence at a time and save the new file as you go. IMPORTED SEQUENCE INTO A NEW FILE – ALL IS GOOD – SAVE FILE – TRY TO REOPEN FILE – BEACH BALL, QUESTION MARKS FOR MEDIA (also type in media files is italic if that makes any difference)Then relink the media. When you are finished, you should be able to work.

If you are on mac os as I suspect, repair permissions on your main drive and on the thunderbolt drive. REPAIRED

NOTE ALL OTHER EDIT SESSIONS OPEN AND OPERATE FINE

THANK YOU!

[Joe Seliski]

Thanks much Bob

Yes – I should clarify – this no longer needs any sharing – it will be one seat working with FCP7 and X.

[Joe Seliski]

Thanks Matt
tried that – and I think it was some photoshop files !?!?!?!
the strange thing is that once you paste the corrupt files into a new sequence – then delete it to try again – the sequence was corrupted from then on also! YIKES