FCPX broke after upgrade to Big Sur. Will not Share Master File. EtreCheck seemed to find other problems, too.
FCPX was working fine on Catalina. I upgraded to Big Sur and now it's a mess. It is incredibly slow if it works at all. The beach ball spins and spins and spins when “Preparing media to share.” Sometimes the only way out is to force quit. Force quit says the application isn't responding. After a force quit, FCPX app will not often open again from the desktop without restarting computer. Sometimes the beach ball spins and spins if I do anything within the timeline. I have found that if I wait a very unusual amount of time that sometimes the task will complete but sometimes, I just have to force quit. It will not save a master file. I keep getting a message that it failed to save. I have used FCPX for about a year on previous OS and had no such problems. I tired deleting the plist file. Didn't help. Tried re-installing FCPX. Didn't help. Nothing has changed about my hardware or hard drives. iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2019). Processor: 3 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5. Memory: 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4. Startup disk; Macintosh HD; Graphics. Mac OS Big Sur version 11.1. Using FCPX 10.5.1. When I looked at EtreCheck report, it says, “security updates disabled.” I have internet through Comcast Xfinity and had been using Norton from them but as of Jan 1st, they said they are using different security software and to just log on and turn it on, which I did. Then I deleted Norton but the FCPX problem started before that. I did turn the firewall on now. I’m not sure if I should trust the Comcast Xfinity security or not??? The Etrecheck says I have no virus protection? That would be since January 1st when I got the message from Comcast. The EtreCheck also says performance is “poor.” It says I have a failing hard drive but I can’t tell from the report which one it is? My previous Time Machine disk failed around 12/6. I can’t remember if that was before or after I upgraded to Big Sur. Disk utilities could not fix it and it that hard drive won’t mount. I have since replaced it with another. Another hard drive I was using to save to for FCPX files lost it’s connection and I got the message about not disconnecting hard drives while in use but I had not disconnected it at all. That hard drive is new in the last week or two and has mounted again at this point.
iMac 21.5″, 11.1
