Final Cut Pro not working

Looks like 10.6.1 has been released. Nothing mentioned in the release notes but it appears to be fixed! More testing required but first reaction is positive!

GOT IT!

for anyone wondering, updates is found on the left side of the AppStore window.

make sure to restart final cut if you have it open like I did.

mr ripley ripley:

Other than abusing those who come here trying to help, any contribution?

Tom has said time and again that there are issues with 10.6.

FWIW, I was the one who mentioned preferences and yes, deleting preferences very often clears issues.

It is not a panacea, but it is worth a try whenever the application behaves unexpectedly, and is pretty much mandatory after it crashes. Of course, if there is a bug, clearing preferences will not solve it. And yes, there are apparently several bugs in 10.6.

Probably a quicker solution would be to create a new partition on your boot drive using Disk Utility and install Big Sur on it together with FCP X 10.6

Later when Monterey is repaired you could delete the partition.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/partition-hard-drive-mac-3619175/

I'e just downgraded to Big Sur with Final Cut 10.6 and all is working perfectly with the same libraries that were problematic under Monterey. I joined the beta programme for Monterey before doing this just to see if Monterey 12.1 beta made any difference. It didn't. Hence the downgrade.

Where are you getting these numbers? There are over three million users of the application.

Please post an Etrecheck report from https://etrecheck.com, which will provide information about what might be going on. Give the application Full Disk Access in Privacy System Preferences, and use the "Additional text" button at the bottom of the reply box to paste the copied report. 

FINALLY! 10.6.1 fixes all the issues!

Yes. If you don’t see it in updates, move the current version to the trash and redownload it.

Sometimes when visiting the update page on the App Store app, I need to hit command-R to refresh the updates available. Try that if FCP 10.6.1 isn't showing up for you in the update page.

Make sure you delete your preferences after running the update. I had weird behaviour until I did that.

Deleting prefs is absolutely necessary if the application has crashed or force quit. That's the first step. If that isn't done after the the application crashed, you're basically returning to the crash state, so kind of a waste of time. It's going to crash again. Force quit is basically crashing the application.

It's really slow loading waveforms, if at all, for some systems with some media.

I guarantee you'll mark a problem as solved by Tom or Luis at some point! I learn something from them practically everyday.

Regarding your issue, why not just roll back to 10.5.4 from a backup and work with it while waiting for 10.6.x?

It works ok when you start a new library.

Don't move your projects / events between libraries!

I tried to split a large library in 2 and it totally screwed up because it crashed while moving. At the end the projects I moved were lost. The folders were still there but no way to make them recoginize in one of the libraries. 3 hours wasted > Time Machine restore of 1.6 TB...

I'm leaving my main library alone until Apple cares to fix this fiasco.

Nobody can help you without any information other than it’s not working in your system.

Please post an Etrecheck report from https://etrecheck.com, which will provide information about what might be going on. Give the application Full Disk Access in Privacy System Preferences, and use the "Additional text" button at the bottom of the reply box to paste the copied report. 

Same advice, then. Run Etrecheck and post its report here. Better yet, start your own thread, give specific details about what is happening, together with the Etrecheck report. Very often, posts that say "me too" can in fact represent totally different problems.