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Final Cut Express not opening, error says final FCE disks are missing.

Hi there,

Recently I got a WD Fire Wire 800 Hard drive for christmas so I could move all of my final cut projects over to the HD.
When I moved my final cut express documents including all of the folders it now says this error.

To preserve the integrity of the data used by final cut express, it is necessary to ensure the existence of the following paths;
- My HDD Chris is missing

Then it gives me the option to reset scratch disks, check again or quit.

So I'm not sure what I do.
Should I simply move back all the folders and documents that I moved to my hard drive (btw I tried this but it still gave the same error message). I have deleted final cut express 4.1 and re installed 4.0 to see if it works but it didn't and has the same error message.

Any tips would be helpful.
Chees, Chris.

Mac OS X (10.6.5), I use Final Cut express and iMovie 09

Posted on Dec 28, 2010 11:00 PM

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Dec 29, 2010 12:04 AM in response to Alchroma

Alchroma wrote:
Oh yes.

It wants you to set the location of the new Scratch Disc which will be the new external.
Changing the location will not do any harm to your system. This can be switched anytime in the FCE Preferences.

Is your new drive recognized by the System Profiler and appears on your Desktop?

Yes the hard drive does show up in my desktop that is how I copied all my of final cut doc's over to it,
To be clear it's asking me to reset my scratch disks, should I?
If I don't it wont even let me click on preferences as in, it wont open up FCE.

Cheers Chris.

Dec 29, 2010 6:31 AM in response to Alchroma

Alchroma wrote:
I reset the scratch disks to a location on my HDD.


Can you explain exactly what you did by the above?

I think you may have assigned the Scratch Disc to somewhere on your system drive?????

The Scratch Disc should be assigned through FCE Preferences to your external.

Al


Ok, so when it came up with the error message it asks me to reset the scratch disks. I click ' reset scratch disk' then it comes up with a box asking me where abouts it should be located.
I choose a folder on my HDD called Final Cut Express is this right?

I can't even open FCE any more because I have moved everything onto the external hard drive including software 'everything'.

I'm as stuck as sticky pudding here.

Dec 29, 2010 7:32 AM in response to Viiibe

I can't even open FCE any more because I have moved everything onto the external hard drive including software 'everything'.


You moved the software? You can't do that. That's fatal. The software must be on the system drive as it requires system resources. Move the application called Final Cut Express back into the top level of the Applications folder. Do it move it, rename it, or put it inside a folder.

Do not assign the scratch disk to a folder anywhere. If you want the scratch disk to be on your external drive select the top level of the external drive. FCE will create the folders it needs in that location.

Dec 29, 2010 7:38 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Tom Wolsky wrote:
I can't even open FCE any more because I have moved everything onto the external hard drive including software 'everything'.


You moved the software? You can't do that. That's fatal. The software must be on the system drive as it requires system resources. Move the application called Final Cut Express back into the top level of the Applications folder. Do it move it, rename it, or put it inside a folder.

Do not assign the scratch disk to a folder anywhere. If you want the scratch disk to be on your external drive select the top level of the external drive. FCE will create the folders it needs in that location.


Hi,

When you say move the application final cut express into the application folder.
Do you mean move my folder of final cut express that I moved onto my HDD?
If so it's copying the 20GB folder as I speak. Hopefully fixes this frustrating problem..

Cheers, Chris.

Dec 29, 2010 8:09 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Tom Wolsky wrote:
What's in this 20G folder? It's really difficult to figure out what you've done here. I said to move the application back into the Applications folder. I don't know why you're moving a folder that contains 20G. The application is not 20G.


It has audio render folders, capture scratch, all of the fce projects, library and much more.
I'm still lost, I have the fce in the application folder but when I open it, it starts to load then just doesn't open.
This is fce 4.0 BTW

Message was edited by: Viiibe

Dec 29, 2010 9:05 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Tom Wolsky wrote:
None of those other things belong in the Applications folder. Take them out of there. The application has probably ben corrupted by being moved around and opened in the wrong location. I would suggest using FCS Remover from Digital Rebellion to uninstall the applications and then reinstall from the disc.


I completely wiped Final cut using that program.
Fresh install now it says this error.

Final Cut Express could not be opened because of a problem.

Tried re installing again, get the same problem.
Arhhh!!

Message was edited by: Viiibe

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