If you didn’t repair permissions on your drives, try that. Don’t trash your media files. What I was suggesting was to trash your renders with Render Manager (in the Tools menu). Also, I’d disconnect all the external drives except for your scratch drive. I’ve had problems with 2 FW drives connected at the same time. It depends on the drive. Sometimes using two is fine, but other times, not.
If none of that helps, try exporting segments of the program to find the problem segment. Export 30 seconds or a minute at-a-time. When you come to a segment that hangs, then you know where the bad media is. You can then divide that section into smaller pieces to find the bad file.
John
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