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I need to swap firewire 800 drives when editing. The only way I know of to do this safely is to close fcpx, swap drives and re-open fcpx. Clumsy, stupid, slow!
Is there any way to eject a drive safely while fcpx is open?
Thank you very much,
Larry
Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 27"imac 3.4 GHz intel Core i7, 16GB
Sorry, I don't know any way, but my reply will bump your question to the top of the list so others can see it.
May I ask why you need to swap the drives?
I also think that one should be able to eject a drive from FCP X when it is not needed anymore.
An eject button next to each drive, much like it appears in a Finder sidebar, is a feature that should be there
The fact that one has to quit FCP X to be able to eject a drive is annoying, to say the least.
You should use the Feedback menu in FCP X and request this feature.
As to why one may need to swap the drives, sometimes it may not even come to that. You may for some reason connect a different drive for another purpose, be done with it and not be able to eject it because FCP X ended up "using it". Annoying, to say the least.
Fleak, I have 7 Seagate GoFlexDesk 3tb HDD, but only 4 firewire adaptors for them. There are times I need to attach one of the drives that is not connected to an adaptor and Final Cut Pro X won't let me disconnect a drive to do this, so my only option has been to close FCPX, make the switch and restart the program. It is so time consuming and inefficient.
Thanks for asking.
Thanks, Ian.
I will take your suggestion to use the FCPX feedback menu, Luis. Thanks for telling me about this.
The reason I asked was that I did not (and still do not) understand why all your HDs are not connected in an array. As far as I found out the GoFlexDesk has two FW800 slots. Why don't you build an array with all of them? And what do you need an adaptor for? I have 5 HDs connected with one cable to the iMac and it works.
Anyway, I also asked for that little button for the external drives last year. Hope there are more people like us who do not just complain but request.
Cheers
The disk volume x couldn't be ejected because "Final Cut Pro" is using it.
