MikeeBee8 wrote:
Thanks so much, I've recently needed to move all project/events for backup and I find it quite unnerving!
FCPX gets complicated when you don't choose to tick the "copy files to the Final Cut Pro Event Folder" on import. Having said this, I also at times don't tick this option and have cought myself out doing so!
For example, I completed an edit just before Christmas, the client called this week and asked for a change, having switched from Snow Leopard to Lion, I moved a few music files from my desktop to my external HD. When I opened that event, I got slapped with the unlinked symbol. To cut a long story sort, eventually I re-linked the music and completed the changes, however had I chosen to have these files copied to my events folder on import, I wouldn't have had this problem.
MikeeBee8 wrote:
if I moved both my Final Cut X projects folder and my events folders from an external HD (where I moved them to and now work from) to a network drive (a drive that won't appear in the projects screen) could I, in theory just move them from the network drive into my movies folder on my Macintosh HD in the future and use them as normal?
Absolutely.... but providing all your files exist in the Final Cut Pro Events folder. If you follow this workflow, you can then move events or projects wherever or whenever you like. The only thing you have to make sure of is that no two events or projects are names the same if you have all these drives connected at the same time.
Hope that helps
Tony