Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Is it just me, or has the ability to create new Project Snapshots vanished in 10.2.3? Before the upgrade could create both duplicate projects and snapshots, but now I can only create duplicates. What happened to snapshots? I've trashed the prefs etc but still no sign of snapshots.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
Actually, I still see it in the menus, but whether I click the menu or use the shortcut, the system whirs away momentarily but nothing happens. If I select "Duplicate" the system likewise whirs away and a duplicate project does appear. But with the "Duplicate Project as a Snapshot" nothing happens, nada... zip... except a little beach balling for a second or so, and the Inspect goes blank and returns... but no snapshot
Wait a moment... I just tried it again with the Inspector closed, and voila! It worked. This is new and strange behaviour, but at least I may have found a work around. That is - close the inspector beforee making a duplicate. This surely is a bug, but ;et's hope my work around solves my issue.
Just tested mine, Duplicate and Snapshot work OK with Inspector on or off.
Try the right click method:
Al
Have tried as well and it works (with inspector open)
Geoff.
Thanks guys - none of this works - I only got the one snapshot as described above and again nothing now. This is a huge project and so woe on me for upgrading mid project - I should have known better as if it works for others then it must be my specific library that has some corruption preventing it from working. It's a pity 'cos it ws fine until the upgrade, and right now I am the stage of the project when I am working on all the compound clips containing my draft graphics overlays - so I'm not happy that I can lock these in the snapshots asI do all these fiddly adjustments.
sigh...
YYou could try reinstalling the software. If you have a backup version of the software you could reinstall that. If the libraries are from 10.2.2 they will still work.
OK Guys - I finally fixed the problem. In fact there was a related issue in that the event was flagged with a cautionary triangle, and when I went to export the project I would get this warning message "<project> has missing or offline titles, effects or generators." SO I was guessing I had a bigger issue on my hands.
I tried all the usual suspects, ie trash prefs and CurrentVersion.flexolibrary etc etc, but to no avail. I checked the timeline index and more, but could not find any missing title, effect or generator. Then I stumbled on this:
Re: how do you find missing titles, effects, and generators in final cut pro x?
Simply creating a new blank event, and a new project into that event, then copying the timeline (CMD-A, CMD-C) from my "corrupt" project in the new clean blank project (CMD-A), and voila, the yellow triangle is no longer flagging the event and now I can create snapshots again.
Of course I still have the triangle warning on the back up events, but I just ignore these now so long as the current event where I store my current projects and most recent snapshots is OK, then I'm a happy camper.
Have Project Snapshots Vanished in 10.2.3
