searching Help in FCPX always yields "No Results Found"

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searching Help in FCPX always yields "No Results Found"

I cannot get any results when I search the Final Cut Pro X User Guide. This I access through the Help menu by choosing Final Cut Pro Help. The user guide comes up and I can scroll through those and can find the relevant information.

However no matter what I search for using identical phrasing or words from the User Guide in the Search field the result is "No Results Found".

I am using OS 10.15.1 and FCPX ver 10.4.7

Any ideas out there please.

Cheers

Mac Pro, macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 1, 2019 9:02 PM

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Alchroma

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Dec 2, 2019 2:47 AM in response to Colin Lahana

Are you referring to this:

Mine seems to work and it is on the same versions as yours.

Try resetting the FCP X preferences.

Hold Option-Command as you launch FCP X.

I also found that changing your Primary Language then changing it back after rebooting sorts out weird issues.

Al

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Answer 2

Dec 2, 2019 2:41 AM in response to Colin Lahana

Two things:

1) As usual, when FCP X is not behaving, delete preferences. Hold down command and option keys while starting FCP X, and click "Delete Preferences". Reopen your library, and try again.

2) Since there is a problem with searching, try forcing a reindex of Spotlight. Open System Preferences->Spotlight, drag your drive to the Privacy list, quit. Go to System Preferences again, and remove your drive from the list.

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