Spinning Wheel while using FCP 7

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mugsy1 Author

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Spinning Wheel while using FCP 7

Hi, I just bought a new 21" iMac, specs:

2.7 GHz Intel Core i5

8GB memory

OS X 10.8.2

over 800GB free space

I'm running Final Pro 7.3, everything was working fine up untill last night when I started getting the spinning wheel of death for everything I did (about 5 sec waiting). When I open FCP I also get the wheel for about 10 secs before it opens the project. I've tried deleting FCP preferences, that didn't work. I've opening up different projects in FCP and they all do the same thing. I thought it was maybe something with my comp, but CS6 seems to be working just fine.

Please help, and thanks in advance

Final Cut Pro 7, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Mar 11, 2013 11:34 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 13, 2013 1:03 PM in response to mugsy1

How did you delete your preferenes? The best way is to use digital rebellion's preference manager

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2491

Have you installed any new software or updated anything recently?

Here are a bunch of fcp troubleshooting tips

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2591

Go thru these methodically and let us know what happens.

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Answer 2

Jan 28, 2014 2:34 PM in response to mugsy1

After trying everything under the sun for two weeks straight, one simple solution worked for me: TURN OFF TIME MACHINE. Hope this helps.

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Jim Cookman

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Feb 2, 2014 6:38 AM in response to AriGoldFilms

This would seem to indicatethat you've got media on yoursystem drive. NOT a good idea.

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Answer 4

Feb 2, 2014 7:27 AM in response to Jim Cookman

It would SEEM to indicate that I've media on my system... but I don't. Not a shred. All my media is on an external drive that was excluded from TimeMachine already.

This is a straight-up FCP 7 glitch that appeared on Mountain Lion and has persisted.

I'm telling people because after trying every fix in the forums--reinstalling software, disabling all plug-ins, reducing render and playback settings, trashing prefs and cache with pro software, etc etc etc, the simple fix that saved me was turning off Time Machine, plain and simple. And it worked. It shoudn't have been causing the problem, but it was.

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Answer 5

Jul 4, 2014 12:53 PM in response to AriGoldFilms

Turning off time machine did not fix the problem UNTIL I discovered that my tm drive was corrupt and disconnected it. Even though FCP shouldn't even have been looking at this drive just having it on line made FCP useless.

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