Downgrading an FCPx 10.4.8 Library

Not directly, but it may work via XML.

Try this: select the library in the browser sidebar, and do File->Export XML...

Choose the lowest of the two versions offered (I think it will be 1.7). This is a very small text file.

Send that XML file to your colleague.

If all goes well, on their side doing File->Import->XML

and selecting the file you sent there should be all the library structure intact (but no media; they will all appear offline, since the XML does not carry any media)

If this works, all it takes now is sending the media and relinking.

I was able to import the XML after making changes in that line and a few others.

For some reason, in the date attribute of each project, an invalid character (ASCII code 08) has crept in.

By removing it, I was able to import with just a few warnings.

I tried to post a link to the converted files, but it did not let me. I will try in a separate post.

oshomysteryschool wrote:

Hi Luis,

I am not able to download the file from the shortURL that you have shared.

I have tried deleting the project which is mentioned in line 2746.

There may be problems because some projects have "Hindi - An Indian Language" Project names and some titles. I am trying to export and import only those projects which have english names.

In case you can alternatively share the xml that you had edited it will be great.

Thanks,

Try this:

1) Open the xml file in BBEdit. (BBEdit free version is what I have and it works great; another text editor may be used, but since we are going to enter a code in the search box this may not work the same way)

2) Press Command-F and make it so the search and replace window looks like this.

Make sure that Grep is checked, and that the replace box is empty, then click Replace All.

You should see a notification that some (7 or 8) replacements were made.

3) Save the file and try importing

I would like to take a look at the xml file. You could send it to yourself via wetransfer, and post the link here.

As it turns out, it is not the Oriental characters in the name, but an ASCII code 8 character in the date...

Here is link to download:

http://shorturl.at/iqvP4

There are some funky non-roman characters in the project name on line 2746.

"2004-05-01 -(characters that this forum won't allow)- 11-DEC-AM - Old Temp"

Maybe try renaming this project to something simple and try the export and import process again?