Q: "Revive" Old version Final cut pro events and projects
Hello,
A few months ago I copied my Final cut pro app from my Mac Hard Drive to an external one. I have been working on a few projects (on the hard drive) for a while now. However, recently the most awful thing happened. I updated my system to Yosemite. I found out that the new version is not compatible with the old version of Final Cut that I've been working with (10.0.0). Inevitably, I had to update my Final cut pro (risking loosing those projects etc.). Since, the Final cut on the external hard drive was just a copy, when I updated Final Cut it updated the original app on my Mac hard drive. Hence, I tried copying this new version into my external hard drive (along side the old version), crossing my fingers that somehow this will work. Of course, NO LUCK. When I opened the new updated version of Final Cut from my Ex. hard drive. The old events and projects (which are saved under "Final Cut Events" & "Final Cut Projects" in the same folder as the app on the Ex. hard drive) were missing. I now wonder, is there a way to "Load" the old events/projects from those folders? Or some other solution? Those files appear as text files and not Final Cut "related" files (with a Final Cut mark or so). For Eg. "CurrentVersion.fcpevent" = text file.
I have another mac computer that I haven't updated to Yosemite yet! However, When I try to "double click" the file ("CurrentVersion.fcpproject") it tries to load it forever, but at the end- gets stuck and does n-o-t-h-i-n-g!
I am desperate for a solution! Among the projects is a Music Video I have been working on for a client for a very long time now...
I would appreciate any piece of advice.
Thanks in advance,
Tom.
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Posted on Apr 10, 2015 7:03 AM
You should spend a few minutes (really, that's all it will take) reading this support doc to understand what happens when you update from 10.0.x to 10.1.x. (Did you mean you were literally running 10.0.0?)
As for double clicking a .fcpproject file in the Finder, that has never worked – for any version. In 10.0.x, projects and events were opened from within the app's UI.
Russ
Posted on Apr 10, 2015 7:18 AM