Q: Can't open any project or backup files from external drive
Hi everyone,
The way I had things set up, is that my final cut pro project was saved on the external drive. Everytime I open it, it picks up from the external drive. Recently, I had a power outage which shutdown my external drive and crashed my FCP X. When I turned things back on, I kept getting an error that FCP quit unexpectedly. I have the option to Ignore or Reopen. I tried opening my backups but I get the same error. Sometimes it would tell me to save it on the internal drive and it would actually open, but I get a lot of missing file links. My mac doesnt have a lot of space, so I need it to be stored on the external drive.
I thought it might be my sharing and permissions of the drive from the get info menu, so I gave all access, but doesnt work. I tried trashing the FCP preference but that didnt work.
I have version 10.2.3 and on Mac OSX 10.11.6 El Capitan
Could anyone please help me? I don't know what else to do.
Final Cut Pro X, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Posted on Aug 14, 2016 11:20 PM
Hi Al,
I have already done this as well. Any libraries I had on the external drive will not open; however, the libraries I have internally, opens.
Based on that idea, I decided to create a new library and placed it in my external drive. Sure enough, it was able to open. So I opened the package contents from the corrupted one and copied it over to the new library. And everything works!
Thank you for showing me how to open package contents as it really helped resolved the issue. Appreciate your time!
Posted on Aug 16, 2016 12:03 PM

