Importing from external hard drive

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Aldorama1985 Author

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Importing from external hard drive

Recently updated to Big Sur. My import process was always from a hard drive. Footage is stored on the hard drive in camera folders>import to fcpx and copy to library from that hard drive. Forever this has worked without issue.

First time today it isn't working on different devices. FCPX either crashed or when it did load it missed large batches of clips which is disconcerting. Is this a known error or is there a workaround?

The footage is .mov files shot on the GH5.

Many thanks!

Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on May 9, 2021 2:41 PM

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Luis Sequeira1

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May 10, 2021 1:07 AM in response to Aldorama1985

DON’T mess with permissions on the drive unless you are sure that you know what you are doing.

What Tom talked about is in

System Preferences->Security & Privacy->Privacy: click “Full Disk Access” on the left and see if Final Cut Pro is on list.

If not, click the padlock, enter your password as requested, click + and add Final Cut Pro to the list.

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Aldorama1985 Author

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May 10, 2021 1:02 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thank you! I can't confirm if this is correct but it does look like it could be. The permissions are set to custom which i'm struggling to modify whereas all other drives have appropriate permissions in place so it looks like that could be it. Thank you

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