[John Smith]

Hi
I managed to get this to work by having all of the projects and events on a separate external hard drive (Which I think I formatted in Mac OS Extended).
Sorry if this isnt the answer your looking for, but its the way I got around it.
Plus its freed up space on my internal hard drive now as well.

[John Smith]

To check the permissions, you click on the folder and get info (command-i). Look down at the bottom and twril down the “Sharing and Permissions” section. What do you see?

I have already done this and set them all to read and write privilege

[John Smith]

“When you load the external events, are the Events on your internal “hidden”?
Yes, events/projects on INTERNAL are always hidden from FCPX as to whether I have the External Hdrive plugged in or not. I have stated this previously.”

But did you follow my advice and move them OUT of the Final Cut Pro Events/Projects folders?

Yes, as stated in my post Jan 6, 2012 at 3:40:26 pm

“Are there any background processes running?
No I am running ONLY FCPX”

Sorry, i should have been more specific. When you open FCPX, click on the little render wheel next to the tc readout. It should open the background process display. Is anything running?

No, there is no background processing taking place.
but then again why would there be if FCPX is not showing any Events/Projects (without the external hard drive plugged in)

Do you have any other suggestions? No offense intended to you (You have been very helpful indeed), but I just feel like we’re going round in circles now.

[John Smith]

“Yes although as stated sometimes it take a few restarts of FCPX to get them all to appear.”

I would try deleting your render and cache files with your external drive disconnected and FCPX shut down.

Not sure what you mean here, I’m talking about the events/projects on the EXTERNAL hard drive here appearing after a few restarts of FCPX, so I cant delete the render/cache files on the EXTERNAL hard drive without having it connected?

Your media and databases seem to be fine as they do work.

Your drive/system on the other hand seems to be having some issues as the events on the external work.

Correct.

When you load the external events, are the Events on your internal “hidden”?

Yes, events/projects on INTERNAL are always hidden from FCPX as to whether I have the External Hdrive plugged in or not. I have stated this previously.

Are there any background processes running?

No I am running ONLY FCPX

[John Smith]

“Doing this has had no effect.”
No effect on what? They didn’t load? or they did load?

They did not load.

On your external, can you see all of your projects?

Yes although as stated sometimes it take a few restarts of FCPX to get them all to appear.

When is the last time you ran maintenance options on your disk like repair permissions?

As stated earlier in this post, this was done on 22nd December 2011.

Are you the only user on the home drive?
Yes

[John Smith]

Make the “Inactive” folders I was talking about on both internal and external, and move all the Projects?events in there. Forget about the media on your internal drive, only work with the external for now.

On the external drive, move one event in to the Final CUt Events folder, and launch FCPX.

Does it load? If so, great, quit FCPX.

Go through every event like this until you find one that isn’t working.

Once all the events are loaded, then do the same with projects.

This is just to see if everything is up and running, I know it’s a lot of work.

Doing this has had no effect.

If all your events and projects are OK, quit fcpx, and then I’d trash all the stuff on your internal hard drive FInal Cut Events and Projects folder. Launch FCPX. There might be some thumbnails that need to rebuild, so let it run. If you want to move things back to your internal drive, use FCPX to do so, but I’d suggest just work from the external.

I appreciate the fact that I can work now from the External hard Drive, but sometimes NOT ALL of the projects/events appear unless I keep restarting FCPX, which to me says that something is STILL not right. Couple this with the fact that the system also creates a new event EVERYTIME, and something just doesnt feel right.

Just to note, I take it if I work on an External HD project, it updates the saves on the External HD, and it doesnt try to save it on the internal drive?
I just done know if its worth me cutting my losses with FCPX now and try a different video editing suite instead. I’d hate to spend weeks editing video for it all to go kaput again.

Those warning you are getting are FCPX protecting you from yourself as it’s finding duplicate media.

It appears that your events and projects are in tact, which is good. There does seem to be something wrong with your internal drive or perhaps the FCP cache files within the Events/Projects folders on your internal.

I dont think there is anything wrong with my internal drive as every other program I have runs fine. But there is definitely something wrong with the way FCPX looks at my system.

Jeremy

[John Smith]

Internal drive.
I have not reconnected up my external drive since I have reinstalled FCPX. Therefore I have NOT attempted your previous posts suggestions yet. I’m just not sure Ive got the mind to do it today now as Ive been on this 3 hours so far today and gotten no where.
I might have a look at it again tomorrow as my brains melted now.

[John Smith]

Hi Jeremy
I decided to re-install FCPX as I said I would.

When I move FCPX App to the Trash The Final Cut Pro Event and Final Cut Pro Projects still stay where they are in Movies folder on the internal Hdrive.

Is this correct?

Anyway, so I trashed/reinstalled FCPX and it seemed to work properly again, but I thought I’d try a reboot to see if it was permanent. (Just to note it had also created a New Event with Date type Folder as per before)

Rebooted the system, FCPX wont recognise the events/projects again.

And its KEEPS creating new event folders in sequential order every time I start up FCPX

ie
New Event 5-01-2012
New Event 5-01-2012 1
New Event 5-01-2012 2
New Event 5-01-2012 3
New Event 5-01-2012 4

I’m wondering if this has something to do with it?

[John Smith]

Before trashing/reinstalling FCPX I decided to copy of all my events/projects files to an external hard drive (Keeping the same folder name on the external hard drive).

I then decided to start up FCPX with the external hard drive attached AND with also keeping the same events projects in the proper place on the internal hard drive.

FCPX very slowly said what it was reading on the splash screen as it started up the FCPX (When this hasn’t been working properly it usually just whizzes through this)

And then Events showed up OK and in Project Library there were the same projects twice (one on Macintosh HD, one on Untitled – My external Hard Drive).

I could access all of it OK except I had one error message. (Which I clicked OK to).

I closed down/booted up FCPX a few more times and it was all still there OK.

Then I closed down FCPX, disconnected my External Hard Drive, rebooted the system, opened FCPX again (without External Hard Drive Connected) and it went back to not recognising anything again.

So I reconnected the External Hard Drive, started up FCPX again (I got a different error message, to which I clicked OK) but this time only three of four projects were there, but all 3 events were there. But they were all projects on the External Hard Drive NOT the internal Hard drive.

I restarted FCPX and all four projects then appeared from the External Hard Drive, but not from the internal hard drive.

Honestly, this is maddening!
Im going to try reinstalling FCPX next, but just thought I’d advise where I was now.

(Error message screen shots below)

[John Smith]

Hi there
When I delete the Events in FINAL CUT EVENTS FOLDER

named for instance
New Event (followed by) Date

the next time I start up FCPX again its just creates a New Event Folder each time called

New Event (followed by) Date

for each time I start up FCPX

Yes, I have tried deleting preferences manually and have also used the App Preferences Manager.