Photos and Music libraries are empty

Try opening iTunes or GarageBand and then FCP X; do the same with Photos (or iPhoto).

Also, for the sound effects, did you download the additional content? (Final Cut Pro->Download Additional Content)

Reinstalling the whole OS is overkill.

Reinstalling FCP X may do the trick, but even that should not be necessary.

Try deleting preferences first, just in case.

Oh, and there is another you can try, for Photos: make sure that your photo library is designated as the "system phto library".

To do this, open Photos, go to Preferences and click on "Use as System Photo Library".

Dimka! wrote:

Some time ago I deleted Photo because Photo is released.

I dropped iPhoto to trash. I dropped to trash all files that have *iPhoto* in filename that I found on Macintosh HD also.

My be I deleted something important? 😝

I would not think so.

Here is what I would try: just temporarily, create another Photos library, add just a few photos so it is not empty, and set this new as System Photo Library - just to see if it triggers something in response (hopefully these few photos may appear in FCP X); if it works then all you have to do is to reinstate the "real" photo library as the system photo library.

Try uninstalling FCP X completely - use FCS Remover, from Digital Rebellion.

Then download a fresh copy from the Purchases section of the App Store.

I run OSX 10.10.3 on a Macbook Pro 15" Early 2011, with 8Gb RAM and 256Gb SSD.

Unfortunately I can only support your question. Exactly the same happened to me, the "Photos" and "Music and Sound" sections are empty. I uncovered this recently. I think I upgraded FCPX to the latest version (10.2.1), and removed iPhoto completely since then.

So I did in the recent past remove iPhoto, as the new Photos app is there. I also made sure I no longer have the old iPhoto Library; everything is now organized neatly in Photos.

iTunes is running as well, and I did download the FCPContent.dmg and installed it. I no longer have iMovie etc, but that was already removed long ago.

I also ran the old Garageband and the new one (v10), several times. This seemed to have helped others sometimes.

I uninstalled Final Cut Pro twice now, Final Cut Pro X 10.1: How to remove and reinstall Final Cut Pro X - Apple Support.

installing the additional content from a .dmg file every time (as the "download additional content"-menu item in FCPX just goes to the App Store, and then nothing is downloaded).

In addition I did find the content and dragged it onto the "Music and Sound" and als "Photos" section to no avail. Even individual files dropped there did not result in anything.

I really don't want to reinstall my whole Mac.

HELP?

PS other threads did also not solve this, not really:

Why can't I add final cut pro sound effects?

Neither the "Photos" nor the "Music and Sounds" browsers work

As a Workaround, I can drop audiofiles from the Finder directly on the timeline. I'm sure this can be done with photographs as well.