External Hard Drive

..both my Lacie USB2 and Iomega FW800 are formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled), but only the USB2 disk is visible in FCP-X

A colleague suggested to use a shorter or different cable..but makes no difference too

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It sort of makes sense to block Fat32 drives because the maximum file size is just short of 4GiB, but it would be nice to be able to use exFAT or even NTFS which don't have the same file size limits.

Same problem here. I have 2 Western Digital HDD, 2tb and a 1tb. Neither of them are showing up now. Where as yesterday they both showed up in FCPX. One is formatted in NTFS and the other OSX J. Frustrating that now I can't continue to work cause all the files I worked on yesterday are on the 1tb drive....

It doesn't recognise exFAT hard drives either. I just plugged in three drives all formatted as exFAT, which it didn't recognise, but exact same model hard drive as one of them, formatted as HFS+, did work.

That's a real bummer, since I'm currently reformatting all my drives to exFAT, since it can be read on both Mac and Windows, yet doesn't have the 4GB file limit of FAT32

I'll probably have to designate a dedicated FCP X disk

Ok so after calling Apple and doing alot of trouble shooting I was able to save to my external G-Raid 2 TB HD Firewire 800 from FCP X. The problem for me was that the drive I was trying to save to was my Time Machine Backup. The FCP expert I talked to from Apple explained that FCP X could not write to a drive being used by Time Machine. Kinda of lame I have to find a new drive for my backups but after removing the drive from Time Machine and deleting the Backup files on it, the HD it worked!

Same issue but am trying to use my Drobo for the FCP library. It's connected to another Mac on my local net and mounted on my desktop. It doesn't show up in either the Event or Project library nor in the Move option. It does however show up for import. Pretty frustrating...

...getting even weirder...now I connected a LaCie Rugged with FW800 formatted with the same Mac OS Extended (journaled) as my other ext drive..and this one works!

So.. Lacie Rugged FW800 works..Iomega FW800 not. Same formatting and I never used Time Machine (it's off from the start and there's no disk visible there)

Love the new FCP-X features..but this is driving me nuts...

Hope 'Steve' already got some geniuses on this case and fixes the bug soon.

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FCPX did not recognize my external HDD since I have activated Time Machine on it. I think, this is the reason.

But Apple: this is really ****. I have an external RAID 10-System with 8 GB of space and will it use as my Time Machine backup for my iMac and as video storage at the same time. That is really annoying.

Just thought that I'd add my tuppence worth and say that I'm also having and seeing this problem.... currently having to spam DVC-Pro HD footage all over my boot drive 😮

Does anyone know if Apple has acknowledged this as a problem/issue?

I don't think it has to do with Time Machine. I don't have Time Machine enabled on my MBP or my 2 of 3 externals, and FCX won't see any of my externals since the first few hours of running it.

Yes, it has. Enabling TM => HDD will not be seen under FCPX.

Disabling TM => HDD will be seen under FCPX.

then there has to be something else, cause I dont have it enabled on my MBP and it doesnt see any of my externals

There can be an offending file on the drive. See my findings here

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3135814?answerId=15519285022#15519285022

eh.. not going through my external to find mp4 files. I did notice though that the show/hide project library button is greyed out. But the key command works. So I might just re-download it and see if that fixes things.

video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jydyzy-9XPY

!! SOLVED !!

I have the same problem since I installed FCP-X on the first day it came online...Today I cleaned up my External drive and removed a folder (which I made myself) called VIDEOS to another drive...and don't ask me why: my external Iomega FW800-drive shows up in FCP-X now.

Weird, but worked for me 😝

Walter