Final Cut Pro will not start anymore

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Final Cut Pro will not start anymore

Mysteriously Final Cut Pro has been unable to start. This is very recent - within the last few days.

FCP will start - then there's a beachball that never goes away - I've waited 5 to 10 minutes before using "force quit" to kill the application. This then will trigger some sort of error report with data sent somewhere - presumably sent to developers. I tried rebooting my computer to fix the issue but that didn't fix anything.

FCP is unusable now.

I suspect a recent installation of software has somehow corrupted Final Cut Pro. I don't know what to do. I feel like I'm using a janky Microsoft Windows system.

MacBook Pro 15″

Posted on Sep 2, 2024 7:47 PM

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Answer 1

silver_mica Author

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Sep 2, 2024 8:19 PM in response to silver_mica

I started FCP immediately followed by the keyboard sequence: option+⌘ →

Then a window popped up asking if I should delete preferences. I deleted my preferences and FCP started without the beachball. I created a library/event/project and FCP appears to be working now.

Oh, wow, I only have 18GB on my SSD. It was around 160GB of free space a couple of days ago. Not sure what happened. A couple of days ago I pushed many media files to the iCloud - by selecting something roughly phrased as 'delete downloads' (in Finder while navigated to a folder in the iCloud). I'll have to see what's going on with regard to SSD space.

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Answer 2

Sep 3, 2024 2:44 AM in response to silver_mica

You need more space.

You should seriously consider getting an external SSD to store your libraries.

Meanwhile, you can probably recover a lot of space immediately.

Go to Final Cut Pro->Settings->Playback and turn OFF “background render@;

then in

Final Cut Pro->Settings->Import turn OFF the options to transcode. You don’t need them and they generate huge files.

Finally:

Select your library in FCP browser sidebar and do File->Delete Generated Library Files…

Check all the boxes, including All Render Files.

Quit FCP and see how much space you have. Better?

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Answer 3

Sep 2, 2024 8:08 PM in response to silver_mica

The first thing you need to do is start FCP while holding down option+⌘ → Delete the environment settings.

Please tell me the capacity and remaining capacity of the built-in SSD.

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Answer 4

Sep 3, 2024 6:32 AM in response to silver_mica

In addition to Luis' comments go to your trash and delete anything that is in it.

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