Q: I can't seem to get restore from backup to work
I lost an entire feature film project in FCPX 10.1.2. Gulp.
I was trying to export to Blu Ray, then tried to just export the Blu Ray file to hard drive, i.e., I gave it 2 commands at almost the same time. My fault, but then FCPX started acting funny, so I forced quit and restarted FCPX.
When I rebooted, I discovered that the feature project is gone, but everything else is there... (the trailer and all the other project files, just the one project -- the big, most important one -- is not there).
So I tried to restore the library from the backup that was made an hour earlier. When I select it and then ask for the backup I get a spinning beach ball, but I am not sure if that is FCPX working away or is this FCPX just not able to do anything? Should I force quit again? I have a backup on another hard drive from the previous day, should I just go to that???
This library that I am trying to restore is a fairly big file, 1 TB, could that be what is taking a while? How long should I leave the beach ball spinning before giving up on it? Thanks.
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), i7
Posted on Jul 27, 2014 6:29 PM
Hi Russ, I did wind up using the backup file from FCPX. It took quite a while for it to relink everything, hours (for some reason it took forever to find files that were .caf that I used from the FCPX effects, not sure why). The only thing that is strange is that all the underwater shots that I had in the film are listed as "incompatible." Something about the audio has to be the same as the way it was in the original file. I didn't use any of the underwater audio for the obvious reasons (diver breathing, etc). Anyway...
I ran out of time today (at work now), but later tonight I will try this: at the same time I have open the version of the film with the unlinked "incompatible" underwater files, I will open a slightly older version of the film from the library from another hard drive where I have those underwater scenes already done the way I want them, then just copy/paste them into the newer version film that has the unlinked "incompatible" files. Will this work?
As always, thanks for your help Russ.
Posted on Jul 28, 2014 2:27 PM