[Ted Hogeman]

Hey, I know this is an old post, but I came across it while trying to solve the problem of the missing HUD. What had happened to me was that the HUD had somehow gotten dragged off the screen while I was at a higher resolution, so that when I was activating it, it was appearing off screen.

To fix it, I adjusted my screen resolution in system preferences to show the most screen space, then moved it back to the middle of the screen, and returned my screen resolution to the ‘best for display’ setting.

[Ted Hogeman]

Hey, I know it’s been a while on this thread, but I just recently encountered this problem too and I think I figured out a solution:

I rebooted into safe mode (holding down the shift key on startup), then started up FCPX while logged in on safe mode (I don’t know if this is a necessary step, but I tried it just to see). It gave me an error message saying that Final Cut’s OpenGL needs aren’t supported in safe mode, so I restarted the computer normally and all my events and projects are back.

Hope this helps anyone else who has this issue!

[Ted Hogeman]

Hey John and Adam,

I also had this issue, and was finally able to resolve it by rebooting in safe mode (start up your computer while holding down the shift key). I started up FCPX from within safe mode (don’t know if this is necessary, but just in case it is I’m throwing it in). That gave me an error message that some of it’s OpenGL components weren’t supported in safe mode, so I restarted normally and FCPX read all my events and projects from the internal drive just fine.

[Ted Hogeman]

SUCCESS!

My solution to the problem involved shutting down the macbook, waiting 10 seconds, starting it back up in Safe mode (by holding down the shift key while pressing the startup button), running FCPX (which gave me an error message saying it wasn’t supported in safe mode), then restarting the macbook. All of my projects and events showed up again as soon as I started up FCPX.

(note that I’ve seen people try this on a couple of other forums and it didn’t work for them…but it resolved the issue for me).

If anyone else has this issue, hope this helps!

[Ted Hogeman]

Good thinking about checking the other account. It also has the same problem (but at least now I know it’s not just a matter of my account settings).

I don’t think this system has ever had a clean install since I got it, which might have something to do with it. Do you mean wiping it and then reloading everything again from time machine?

EDIT: I did recently replace the hard-drive in the macbook pro, which was around the same time this problem first started up (I plugged in the new drive as an external first, cloned my drive on the computer onto it, then switched them out).

[Ted Hogeman]

Thanks for the reply!

Nope, the folders have the same name as always, and I’ve tried hiding them both in an ‘FC – hidden’ folder, then putting them into the folders FCPX creates on startup, but no dice. The one workaround that does seem to do the trick is putting them all on an external hard-drive, in which case they show up just fine.

I would still like to figure out some way to fix FCPX on my internal drive however.

[Ted Hogeman]

Ah, I just saw from someone else’s forum posts about this that this is the FCP7 Forum, not FCPX. I’ve reposted it there, but is it still okay to be in here? If not, how can I delete this? (I’m new to Creative Cow…long time reader first time poster and all that jazz).