[Tom Hudgins]

What’s that? Empty the Trash to free up some disk space? Ok. 🙂

Okay, I’m an idiot. I found my projects…

I guess it made two Libraries and I was thinking it was only one. In my “Maverick’s” (boot disk) library, there is an Event called Updated Projects. It has a disclosure triangle next to it and I had clicked that and had only seen what I guess are the keywords – I hadn’t actually clicked the Updated Projects Event itself. Once I did that, I can see my projects and *all* their clips in the browser. I have no excuse for why I didn’t comprehend this initially.

It still seems like I’m kind of messed up because all my projects and their events are in that Updated Projects Event and I’d rather have them organized so that clips are with the project. For example,

In Libraries, I have an “External HD” library and my Mavericks’s Library. In the External HD Library, I have an Event called St. Martin Trip. It has all the clips but no project (the cause of my initial post).

In the Mavericks Library, there is the Updated Projects Event which has all my projects and all of my clips (they must be just links to the actual clips in the other Library I suppose).

I’d like to get this organized so that I have separate Events for my projects instead of all together. Can I just drag say, the St. Martin project from the Mavericks Updated Projects Event over to the St. Martin Event in the External HD Library?

Thanks for helping me out of my self-inflicted jam.

Tom

[Tom Hudgins]

Okay, I think I see what might have happened and I hope someone can help me straighten this out.

Awhile back, I had an external HD crash and I had to do some restores from backup and I think I may have messed things up then. Before the 10.1 upgrade, I had a Final Cut Projects folder on both my boot disk/home disk and my external drive. I *think* my project definitions were in the folder on the boot disk and the actual clips and events were on the external drive. I know I had to relink media to the projects to get things hooked up after the restore.

When I just did the 10.1 Library upgrade, it moved my old Final Cut Projects folders into the Trash and I can see that my boot disk folder (in the trash) has the project file while the external disk FCP folder (in the trash) does not.

I think I somehow need to re-link the project file with the events but I’m not sure how to do that.

Anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks in advance,

Tom

[Tom Hudgins]

I built one and am using it with no problems with FCPx. I would say that the only downside is when OS X has upgrades – it can sometimes involve re-running the configuration programs to get all the drivers working but it’s not really a big deal – especially with the money you save.

I highly recommend tonymac86.com for guides and help. They basically have a foolproof blueprint for a hack that is pretty much guaranteed to work if you pick the same components.

Tom

[Tom Hudgins]

Thank you so much for this insight. I was just about to post asking for help with missing events (disappearing when FCPx loads) and found this thread.

I had put an AVCHD file from my camera on the root of my external drive and inadvertently caused this issue. Once I moved it, all my events reappeared and media linked up in my projects.

Yes, such a relief!

Thanks again,

Tom