Final Cut Pro becomes homicidal and also damaged Library fix help

SterlingBen wrote:

A brief internet search would lead me to believe that EtreCheck is not safe enough to consider using.

There is a stalker who has for many years been badmouthing EtreCheck and its author. Apple too. He has published a lot of negative claims about Etrecheck & Apple, cloaking them in misleading and even outright incorrect technical mumbo-jumbo designed to give the appearance that the writer knows what he's talking about. That is the real 'social engineering' the writer claims to be against. He's using it to engineer you to believe what he claims.

You have opened a backup library. Where is the original library?

If it has to update the library that means you have updated the application, from what version did you update? Backups probably can’t be updated properly.

There can be a number of reasons the computer is out of space, from FCP generated files by creating optimized and/ or proxy files, by having background rendering turning on, so the application is generating large files and also running analysis processes to computer itself which is continuously generating very large snapshots.

The first thing you should do is try to clear off some free space by moving content onto another drive. The system drive should have a minimum of 15% free at all times. The next thing is to find your original library, whatever it’s called, and not use a date/time stamp backup.

The library was probably made in 6.10.

As you say if FCP hasn’t opened anything it isn’t generating any files, only the. system is.

Does Time Machine still have a copy of the older version of FCP, or do you have a backup of it?

It’s hard to deal what’s going on without knowing anything about your system, an EtreCheck report https://etrecheck.com would help a great deal.

Etrecheck is completely safe. Browse these forums and you see it is used every day. It just produces a report and does not modify your system in any way. This is the best chance we have to figure out what is wrong.

MartinR wrote:

There is a stalker who has for many years been badmouthing EtreCheck and its author. Apple too.

A little clarification may be in order. When I said "Apple too" in my earlier post, I meant that the stalker has also been badmouthing Apple. As far as I know, Apple has never said anything against Etrecheck or its author; on the contrary, in my experience Apple has been quite supportive of them.

SterlingBen wrote:

To be honest both the Etre and the sites I saw that talked about it being not great all looked kinda sus.

Even in today's Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting Warrent Buffet talked about the all-too-legitimate-looking scam emails & websites that have sprung up. Just because something "looks" or "sounds" legit or suspect isn't enough to conclude whether or not it is in fact legit or suspect. There are a lot of legit authors & good apps that happen to be available on websites that "don't look great" ... and bad ones that look totally professional.

There is almost no way you could replicate the detail that Etrecheck can provide without actually replicating the Etrecheck app itself. You could search these forums to find Etrecheck reports that have been posted by other users to see the kind of information it provides.

That's all I have to say on the subject.

To be honest both the Etre and the sites I saw that talked about it being not great all looked kinda sus.

It has always been the case that bad rumors spread far and quickly. The truth and good reviews tend to be hidden. I think you just happened to see the rumors.

Please think carefully about the people answering your questions. Are they trying to harm you and your PC with evil applications? Or are you trying really hard to help?

A brief internet search would lead me to believe that EtreCheck is not safe enough to consider using.

Have you searched the community about EtreCheck?

That version dates back to 2016. That's not what you updated from.

There are a lot of legit authors & good apps that happen to be available on websites that "don't look great"

"don't look great" Hahaha😂