Final Cut Pro X backup library missing all files

Hi all. I was having an issue with Final Cut Pro not exporting for an unknown reason. I followed online instructions to delete preferences which ended up hiding my library. I restored a recent backup I had from a few hours ago and everything seems to be in place except for the fact that all the files were missing. I relinked many of them but some are still missing. I had many imported from my iPhone that I figured were just saved in Final Cut Pro (I'm not an expert with FCP, clearly). But all the files imported from my iPhone, many compound clips I had made in various projects, and a handful of others are all missing with no way for me to recover them. I still have the videos on my iPhone but I cannot re-import them for an unknown reason.


I've been finding zero answers for hours and I'm completely stressed and done. Any help you could offer would be wonderful. I just need to find a way to restore the rest of the files that Final Cut Pro had in the library.


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Posted on Oct 6, 2020 9:26 PM

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Posted on Oct 7, 2020 12:24 AM

Resetting preferences did NOT hide your library. It just reset FCP to its default state, in which it opens an “Untitled” library. Your library is exactly where you saved it.

You just have to Open Library->Locate... and choose it. Or locate it in the Finder and double click to open it.


Backup libraries can be used if the library becomes corrupted somehow. They do not contain any media, so what you saw is normal. If you really needed it (which, as I said above, in this case you don’t), you’d have to relink media.

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Oct 7, 2020 12:24 AM in response to corbin07

Resetting preferences did NOT hide your library. It just reset FCP to its default state, in which it opens an “Untitled” library. Your library is exactly where you saved it.

You just have to Open Library->Locate... and choose it. Or locate it in the Finder and double click to open it.


Backup libraries can be used if the library becomes corrupted somehow. They do not contain any media, so what you saw is normal. If you really needed it (which, as I said above, in this case you don’t), you’d have to relink media.

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