Lost media from Events folder can I rebuild?

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Lost media from Events folder can I rebuild?

Running Final Cut 10.0.5

My external hard drive died on it was all the raw media I used still in separate folders. I was able to recover some files from my hard drive and have relinked those files. The only thing I have remaining of the rest of the files is the Project folder that was stored internally. Can I rebuild the project with that data?

The data appears as a UNIX Executable files. There is size there the whole folder is 2.7 GB.

Is there any hope? Thanks

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

Posted on Aug 2, 2015 2:44 AM

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Answer 1

Alchroma

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Aug 2, 2015 4:03 AM in response to SurferStu

Those are Render files that you have highlighted.

These can be re-generated and deleted with little consequence.

Are all the original files/media still accessible?

You must be able to have access to them directly or Symlinked/Alias.

These are the ones required to rebuild.

Al

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Answer 2

BenB

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Aug 2, 2015 7:57 AM in response to Alchroma

Since there is no "Original Media" or "Transcoded Media" folder, you have no original files inside your Library. That's very odd, did you delete everything inside the FCPX Browser?

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Answer 3

Tom Wolsky

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Aug 2, 2015 10:23 AM in response to SurferStu

Your media is kept in separate events folders. There are no library bundles with your version. If you don't have the events folders with the raw material there is nothing you can do unless you have a hard drive backup of the media, or the original media somewhere.

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