Final cut pro x doesn't load projects on external hard drive

FCP X does seem to have a problem when too many Events and media is in the Library. I reccommend one of three things.

First, you can get "Event Manager X" to take some of them "offline" temporarily when you're not using them.

http://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/EventManagerX/

Or you can cretae Disk Images to put stuff in for specific clients or whatever, and only mount the .dmg when you need access to those Events and Projects.

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_managing_disk_image_martin.html

Finally, I recommend you create folders in the Project Library, and start putting projects in them, and closing them. That way, the Project Library won't try loading data from all the projects at once. If it's not in a folder, or if the folder is open, FCP X will load up all the data for all the Projects it can see and can be overwhelmed pretty easily.

Also if by any chance your external drive is designated as the Time Machine backup drive- that will cause a conflict with FCP X as well. If that's the case you'd either need to use a different drive or remove that drive as the Time Machine backup.

BenB wrote:

Or you can cretae Disk Images to put stuff in for specific clients or whatever, and only mount the .dmg when you need access to those Events and Projects.

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_managing_disk_image_martin.html

NO YOU CAN'T - not if you're using Lion.

I wasted hours today trying to get this to work. Finally I emailed Steve Martin and he replied, saying it won't work with Lion.

Andy

BenB wrote:

First, you can get "Event Manager X" to take some of them "offline" temporarily when you're not using them.

http://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/EventManagerX/

This is probably the best way to go; it automates what Apple's own advice is regarding how to manage Events to "hide" them from the interface. Basically you are just moving things around in the Finder, but this application will do it for you (and save you from human error). It's just $5.

If you want to do it yourself, just create new folders called "Final Cut Events Disabled" and "Final Cut Projects Disabled" at the top level. Then in the finder, drag events/projects to/from the main folders to these new ones to disable/re-enable them.

Finally, make sure that FCPX is closed whenever you do these activities.

I have the same problem with 3 HDD in RAID 0 inside my Mac Pro. They disapered (when I open FCP X frist from the project library and then from the event library). Do yo find any solution to your problem ?

I also have 2 SSD in Raid 0 inside the RAID 0 and no problem on those one.

Thank you in advance for your help...

PS : Maybe it is linked to the maximum level on flow rate on the Mac Pro (750 Mo/s if I well remerber).

How was your external drive formatted? Did you do it, or did you use it "out-of-the-box" after buying it?

The next thing I'd try is to reformat that external drive and make sure it is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). You'd need to back up the contents of the drive first, of course.

I see this on an other topic of this forum :

"I had the problem with disappearing drives. Turned out I had a non-FCP folder with some Word files in it. Some of the file names included the word "final". When I change those to soemthing else, the drive showed up.

Anything with "movie" seems to also be problematic. Stupid."

It is realy strange but maybe... I will try for my problem.

Guillaume

I confirm that by changing the name of all the files which includ "movie" // "video" // "Final" my HDD appear normaly.

I hope it will work for you too.

Guillaume

Guillaume - Trango wrote:

I confirm that by changing the name of all the files which includ "movie" // "video" // "Final" my HDD appear normaly.

WOW.....just...wow. 😕

Not cool.

Yes, works just fine in Lion for me. You can't do it using TimeMachine in Lion. But TimeMachine has always conflicted with FCP in the past. It's recommended to turn off TimeMachine before launching any Final Cut app.

BenB wrote:

But TimeMachine has always conflicted with FCP in the past. It's recommended to turn off TimeMachine before launching any Final Cut app.

Ben,

It's true that Time Machine had problems with FCE/FCP prior to the current version, but I have had no problems with running time machine while working on FCPX. In fact, all indications to me are that FCPX is "time machine aware" -- it won't let you use a time machine enabled drive, when time machine mounts its drive (I use a NAS), it properly doesn't show up in FCPX, and when Time Machine runs I experience no adverse effects or slowdowns.

Do you have a reference for saying it isn't recommended for FCPX, or are you just basing that on your experience with past versions?

I say that based on many posts across the Internet, my own consulting clients, my students, and the members of my user group locally all having TimeMachine issues. Especially in Lion. FCP X also has issues with networked drives, and won't write to SAN drives at all. Lots to be fixed here. DMG's for FCP X have issues in Lion, too.