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mhodnicki
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Q: My FCPX will not respond

My final cut pro x will not respond. It worked fine yesterday and now nothing. All I get is the spinning ball and nothing will open. I then check and it says it is not responding I have multiple video I am making and can not loose them.

Final Cut Pro X, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Nov 21, 2012 11:53 AM

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mhodnicki

Q: My FCPX will not respond

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  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Nov 21, 2012 12:04 PM in response to mhodnicki
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    Nov 21, 2012 12:04 PM in response to mhodnicki

    Trash your preferences (use Preference Manager from Digital Rebellion) and repair permissions (use Disk Utility).

     

    Hide your events and projects from FCP and then launch the application. Does it open? Then try with just the projects with no media. Then try adding one event at a time, closing the application each time. You're trying to determine if the application has a problem and then trying to isolate where the problem is.

  • by mhodnicki,

    mhodnicki mhodnicki Nov 21, 2012 12:23 PM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Nov 21, 2012 12:23 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

    Kind of...It still with not respond, what do you mean by hiding the folders?

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Nov 21, 2012 1:47 PM in response to mhodnicki
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    Nov 21, 2012 1:47 PM in response to mhodnicki

    I don't know where your projects and media are. If you have a secondary drive unmount it. If your events and projects in your Movies folder, then make a new folder called Final Cut Hidden and move your Final Cut Events and Final Cut Projects folders into that. Then launch the application.