Final Cut Pro cannot save changes to projects or Events. The disk where your projects or Events are located may be full or unavailable, projects or Events may have moved, or permissions may have changed.

Okay... I am having this problem as well... and in my case I have narrowed it down to a corrupt Event. If I take that event out of my Events folder... Final Cut opens and works as it should... but if the corrupt event is open then the dreaded "Final Cut Pro cannot save changes to projects or Events" pops up anytime I try to do anything... no matter what event or project I try to work on.

I have read through countless forum threads to try to solve this? So far I have tried replacing the "CurrrentVersion.fcpevent" files with Backup versions... tried trashing all the render files... even copied all my events and projects to my bigger newer RAID drive. So there is now 4 Terabytes of free space... but nothing seems to work? The only suggestion that I read somewhere (can't remember where?) that I have not tried was to export the event as a FCPXML... then re-import it... but I am not even sure how to do this... or if I should do this?

Looking through the events Original Media folder... I see that I do have a number of cases where I have several different video clips that share the same name. Final cut pro seems to solve this problem by simply by adding (fcp1) to the name of the second of the clips with the duplicate name.

And I see that I have have this occuring in other events as well... and none of these other events are having problems?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated?

Dale

I have struggled for few hours until solution was found.

- Export project as xml file (File/Export XML...)

- Close FCPX

I have a solution for this problem:

I was attempting to update an external drive with FCP 10.0.9 projects and events and here is what happened and how I solved it..

I updated the drive.

After saving the originals (as requested) I received the cannot save warning.

I quit FCP 10.1 as instructed.

Re opened FCP 10.1 and opened the new Library anyway, and noticed that all the Events were installed and working, but only 6 of the 22 original Projects had been updated, and the rest were missing. Those six Projects were installed and working.

Closed FCP 10.1

Returned to Finder, removed the Final Cut Projects and Final Cut Events folders from the "Old Final Cut Projects and Events" folder and put them on the root drive. Deleted the "Old FCP projects and Events folder" and put the new Library folder into the trash.

Opened the original Final Cut Projects folder that I had put in the root drive and removed the 7th project and put it into a new hidden folder that I created.

Restarted FCP10.1 and everything (except that one project) updated and functioned properly.

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Incidentally I reversed the whole process, went back into FCP 10.0.9, duplicated the corrupted project and trashed the original and then reinserted the duplicate in the 10.0.9 Final Cut Projects folder, but when I went to update I got the same error message. I am assuming the project was corrupted at a deeper level than just the folder, so I will recreate the project in 10.1 from the original media if I need it.

Hope this can help someone else. Feel free to email me directly with questions. misterbarryman@juno.com

What worked for me was deleting the .lock and .lockinfo files from the library package.

First reveal hidden files (copy and paste

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

to terminal prompt, then restart finder).

Then navigate to your where your library is stored, Control Click and 'Show Package Contents'.

You should see the two files at the top. Now just double click the library and it should open right up in FCP.

OF course you should backup your library before making any changes to the package.

Side note:

I'm running a second hard drive with NTFS-3G. I think my issue specifically stemmed from that, but I imagine it might be applicable to any problems with external / secondary drives. Hope this helps someone!

This worked for me as well.

I was working on an external SSD and the connection went down so the ".lock" files have just probably don't be deleted as if Final Cut has been quit correctly.

Oh no...talked too soon.

Exporting the project as a XML and reimporting it worked for me.

I was at a point where I had a cross dissolve between 2 specifics clips and the message was popping but sometime, other modifications was saved. So yeah, it was probably a corrupted Project in my case.

Too bad that the error message is not more specific...

you have no idea how much **** you just got me out of!!!!!!!!