Has anyone else been unable to access projects/create events on an external hard drive? I've been trying to do this all morning but FCP X seems unwilling to have the drives show up. For all the features that have been stripped away, one would think this would be easier. What am I missing?
Yep, I get No Value as well.
Are any of you trying to locate a hard drive in FCPX that happens to have a Time Machine backup on it? I think that might be one problem, or at least it is with one of my drives.
No Time Machine backups on mine. The only thing I used this HD for was for Final Cut projects. I erased the entire thing to see if that would get it to recognize it, but nothing. Still have no idea why it recognizes my 320GB but not my 500GB. They are the exact same make and model, just different capacities.
Not sure why. I have an external FW800 drive from Lacie and am working off of multiple projects from both internal and external storage...
Then it's probably not Time Machine. I have two Western Digital MySTUDIO 2tb arrays I use for transporting larger projects remotely. They are the same drive, for all intents and purposes - both were formatted the same way at the same time. One works with FCPX, one does not. The only difference between the two is that one has a Time Machine backup on it. I can't figure out why that one won't work. There's no rhyme or reason.
I have three drives plugged into my i7 MacBook Pro, and FCPX sees my LaCie FW800 500GB and WD USB2 2TB drives no problem, but refuses to access my LaCie FW800 1TB drive. Crucially the drive it is ignoring is formatted as NTFS whereas the other two are HFS+ (I'm using Tuxera NTFS to enable reading and writing to NTFS volumes).
This sounds like an obvious problem but I have rushes for several projects on the NTFS drive that I use in FCP7 (the rushes are stored there, but the actual project files are on my internal HFS+ volume - FCP7 does not save project files to NTFS, go figure).
Is this a possible explanation? Is FCPX ignoring drives based on the hard disk format?
I don't think the formatting is the reason. My drives are both formatted the same one and only one is recognized. This has got to be some sort of bug.
I have the opposite problem. I can access my external hard drive (USB 2 portable), but my i7 MacBook Pro's hard drive isn't there.
This issue is maddening - it's happening to me, too. The first time I launched FCP X, my Raid appeared under "Project Library"... but every time since then I can't get it to show up. Of course I don't want these projects saved to my macbook pro hard drive, so this is a problem. I have an i7 macbook pro. Has anyone found a solution?
I still haven't found a fix or why it's even happening. I've tried every workaround that's been suggested, nothing. As far as I can tell, some hard drives show up, some don't, and there's no reason as to why and no workaround to get them registering. I'm going to try to dig into the drive itself today to see if that could be the problem, but considering how wide this problem seems to be, I'm doubting it's a format issue. I think it's an honest-to-god glitch.
Im having the same issues with a Seagate 800 firewire, 2 TB External HD. I have tried all the suggested steps and I can't get Final Cut X/Pro to recognize it. I can import files from it into final cut, but it just creates a copy of the video and places it on the IMac HD. I use FCP 7 to save and edit from the HD all the time. I can't figure this out, this is complete garbage.
I'm not sure what to suggest. I can't recreate the problem of some drives working and others not. All my HFS+ (ie Mac OS Extended - Journaled) formatted drives show up, and all those that are other formats don't. I'm in the process of copying everything off my current working media drive and formatting it to HFS+, and in doing so I tried it as FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, HFS+, and HFS+ was the only one that worked.
Do you have any funny characters in the volume names? like ' or :
The volume name is "FreeAgent GoFlex Drive." The drive is seen as read and writable.
Apparently I thought both of my hard drives were formatted the same, but today I re-tried and the one that wasn't working was formatted as MS-DOS (FAT). I reformatted it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and FCP X recognized it right away!
My Wester Digital drive I use at work (not the one at home, which is the same model and does work with FCPX) is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and can't be seen. It's formatted this way at the top level.
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