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

BenB wrote:

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.

I'm running FCP X on Lion and I use TimeMachine without any issues (that I'm aware of).

Please can you describe the issues you mention?

Andy

I'd be interested in learning more too; The other issues you mention I've heard of, but not Time Machine issues.

I'm on Snow Leopard without any problems with Time Machine + FCPX. Are you sure people are referencing FCPX (not legacy FCP) when talking about problems with Time Machine?

I have 5 external HDs connected to my system and one of them would not show in the Event library in FCP X, took Guiaume's advise and changed the names of main folders in that HD containing Video and Final. I simply added '#' before the file name, then when I opened FCP X, it finally showed!

I can confirm that I am using the following:
Lion, FCP X and Time Machine

I solved it myself guys!
if you have a folder called "DCIM" on the the drive (like if you dragged and dropped a file of photos off your camera's memory card straight onto the drive) then FCPX treats the whole dam drive as if it were a camera, but only lets you look at the videos in the DCIM folder!!!!

All you gotta do is rename the folder and the drive will mount properly!

spread the news if anybody else is having the same problem!

I laready notified Apple!

G Anderson wrote:

if you have a folder called "DCIM" on the the drive (like if you dragged and dropped a file of photos off your camera's memory card straight onto the drive) then FCPX treats the whole dam drive as if it were a camera, but only lets you look at the videos in the DCIM folder!!!!

Bet Apple was really surprised to read that one!

Andy

Do you know if this is true for folders named AVCHD and such aswell? 😕

I Can confirm that it is true for all folders with camera-related names

I am an amateur who recently switched from Final Cut Pro 5 to Pro X to edit conference videos as I got a machine whcih runs on OS Lion. I struggled to find a way to save all events and projects to my external hard-drive. In the end I ended up with a bunch of projects and events on both the internal drive and the external one. Final Cut did not detect the external one any more and would simply freeze after opening.

I changed all potentially misleading filenames in the external drive, reinstalled FCP X so it could detect it, used the 'move' option in the FCP X file menu (took me ages to discover it, I was so used to setting scratch disks, etc.) and moved everything to the external drive. I managed to load an unrecognized project that was peviously saved on the external drive and copied the material into a new project neatly saved.

Thank you all for your great help!

Hello,

I need your help here in Spain. Last week end I decided to reinstall LION because my IMac was getting really slow. I am using Time Machine and also saved all my events and projects on an external Hard drive.

One of my client just asked me to change 4 videos I made for them but I can't load the projects from TM or ext. HD

I am really stressing out now. I read the posts but it's not helping...

When I open a project in the TM I have 2 folders: Render files and Shared Items but also a doc: CurrentVersion.fcpproject. The last one is the one I try to open in FCP but It doesnt work.

ANY idea guys?

PS: my events have loaded correctly but the projects won't

MANY Thanks

I wanted to also share that I had the same exact issue. After removing all the DCIM folders and a few others like AVCHD, I still had this problem. After a few hours of widdling things down, I found the culprit: A folder on the external drive called "WRI Films" and inside a single file called "WRI_Sunita.mp4"

I know it seems random, but I was able to replicate the issue. If that folder and file were on my external drive, all events and projects in FCPX disappeared. Once it was removed from the hard drive, everything reappeared upon reboot of FCPX.

A very silly glitch. Think of the collective hours we've wasted on this!!!

I have a similar problem here. I have been editing a project on my iMac but had to go to another country for a while, couldn't bring my iMac but can use a friends MacBookPro here. Everything was already backed up on a 2TB external HD which i connect using firewire by timemachine. The HD appears on the desktop and I can access all my files. I even took the final cut projects, events and other relevant files and duplicated them into another folder. But i cannot load the event file, or the projects.

The MacBookPro I am using doesn't have enough space for the FCPX project, but anyway I'd like to use my external for it.

So I downloaded FCP X trial version since I only need to use it for a few weeks. I am using Snow leopard OS, I have time machine backups on my external, but i don't have time machine enabled on the current computer.

this is driving me crazy. It should just be a matter of data connecting with other data. there must be a way to do this, is this mac technology trying to be smart or something? I just need files to interact with files, all the renaming, partitioning and whatever just seems insane to me, this is basic. I need the FCPX directories to be changed and the data from the ones on my external to be loaded.

My external HD is Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and does not show up in FCPX.

I feel like there is some super logical solution to this but i can't figure it out. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much,

nik.

Please give a screen shot or a list of the folders on the top level of the external drive.

like this?

Rename your VIDEO folder. FCX thinks the hard drive is a camera.

x

I couldn't beleive it, but it's true. Now FCPX recognises the external HD. Amazing and so stupid. But thank you sooooo much for the help.

However, when i click on it it says, 'No events on this disk'.