Thanks again Jeremy, an excellent suggestion and I was very hopeful – I had the date with forward-slashes in the folder name – but it did not work.
Then I tried hooking up an external drive and changing the FCP System Settings to Capture on the external drive, but that did not work either.
I see many posts about “trash preferences” to solve FCP6 problems – do you think that could be an issue here?
Really appreciate the suggestions.