Final Cut Pro X projects and events are not loading

I can't see all the folders on the drive, but I'm guess there's something there that FCP is seeing as a camera. Has this been working for you? What did you change? When you're in FCP, in the camera import function, does the drive appear there?

I'm redownloading FCPX form the app store. I will check the camera import as soon as that happens. This is a new drive I exporrted all my files to and that is when the problem started. It is formatted for Mac OS x journaled so I don't think that is the problem either.

Drive does not appear in camera import either. Here are screen shots showing entire drive.

Event Manager X has all the files and I did just what you said and still nothing in FCPX.

The folder called private is most likely to be the one causing the problem. There may be others. I'd move the FCP Events and Projects onto a dedicated media drive.

Getting rid of the private folder solved the problem!! Thanks to everyone for their help. Tom you are a god!

I solved a similar problem restarting the computer in safe mode (holding shift) and restarting it again normally. It started to load the events again. It was ignoring my events and creating a new one every time I restart the FCP.

Hello there, I came up with a solution to my problem and thought I'd share it. I think it is related to Karzumm's.

For one project, I copied all of my project/event files to DVDs to archive them. When I tried to open up the project a few weeks later, I couldn't. I did was karzumm did: click on the "currentversion" icon, but no timeline loaded.

Given that you have all the events stored somewhere so you can load them again, the problem that I solved was bringing up the timeline so that the events could be loaded in them, and you can edit away, with all events/audio in their right timeline places. After all, it seems that the Project is mainly the timeline, which has all the source materials organized.

Anyway, open up FCPX and start a new project. A Final Cut Projects folder will be created (as is always the case every time you start a new project).

Close down FCPX.

Go to the Final Cut Projects folder (just created).

Delete (or move) the CurrentVersion file (just created also), so that the Final Cut Projects folder is empty.

Move your desired project (the one you have had trouble opening up) into that empty Final Cut Projects folder.

Now when you open up Final Cut Pro X, that project you wanted will load. You may have to load the events separately above (in the Events area) if there are red areas in the timeline.

I hope this helps. I don't understand computers well, but my experimenting at least solved my problem. I wanted to pass it on in the chance that somebody else could benefit. This stuff can be frustrating!

Hey bud, i was having a similar problem and out of my four projects, one wouldnt just load up, im force quitting since yday and trying diff things..The thing is all my folders and data are on my ext drive and its plugged in obviously, so as soon as i open up fcpx, by default it'll start reading everything, so it loads all projects but the last one i was working on. It also ate up one of my projects but that is a diff story. Any help will be greatly appreciated as im time bound completely.

Thank u

Hi eightff,

I suck at workarounds and stuff, but maybe if you had a similar problem to mine then maybe you can find some help in what I did, as explained above.

Have you tried starting a new project then moving the "currentversion" icon (of your fourth non-loading project) into that new project folder (replacing the "currentversion" icon that was just created)? Maybe that would get your fourth project to load. As for the events of that project, well, I'm not sure what to tell you because I have found that I had to load them all into the timeline again manually when re-creating my project. At least I had the timeline loaded.

Sorry if this doesn't help, or shows a lack of understanding of your problem.

Good luck!