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FCP crashing on opening project.

This is my situation, on Final Cut Pro X 10.2.1 OSX 10.10.1 I could open FCP but if I clicked certain projects it would crash.

I tried several methods before finding one that worked. What didn’t work:

1) trashing preferences
2) opening project in OSX safe mode
3) highlighting corrupt project with arrows, File > Export XML, Closing FCP, File > Import XML

The 3rd option actually made things worse as in made the project that opens by default corrupt, forcing me to open FCP with no default file present then choosing the library to open.

This is what did work:

First open the library and move the curser with the keyboard over the corrupt project then Duplicate Project as a snapshot (shift command D). Make a many copies of this, as it will take many times to get the next instruction to work. It took me a few dozen times before getting the hang of it.

In a non-corrupt project in the same library make an edit (like a transition effect) that forces some render to show in progress, then double click the corrupt project, and QUICKLY click the timeline and select all (command-A) and delete the whole project. This should cancel the render that was corrupting the opening. Now you can redo the deletion to bring it all back and it won’t crash like it did before.

Hopefully this helps someone else, as nothing else online was working for me. 🙂