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I used an external hard drive to work on an fcpx project. Copied all the content to another external hard drive and when I opened the project from new one it is not opening. It gives missing file error. It is still pointing to the old external hard drive though I copied the full content.
Is there a way to fix it?
Final Cut Pro X, iOS 10.3.2
What are you showing in the first image? Is that what you copied over from the other drive. You're using external media, in which case the two drives needed to have the same name so that the file path to the media is the same on both drives. Otherwise the way to do this is to consolidate the media into the library before you copy it to the other drive.
What are you showing in the first image? Is that what you copied over from the other drive. You're using external media, in which case the two drives needed to have the same name so that the file path to the media is the same on both drives. Otherwise the way to do this is to consolidate the media into the library before you copy it to the other drive.
Please post screenshots of what you're seeing in the application and on your drives. Need to see what's going on. Are you trying to open a library? Where you working with managed media inside the library bundle or external media outside?
Opened the TIC library from the external drive. And in FCPX I get that media files are missing.
One question - From one external drive to another I copied the folders and pasted in the new one. Is that causing an issue? The media files are pointing to the old external drive. Because I attached both drives and this one is opening without any issues. So how to break that link and make the fcpx project to point to the media in the new files?
Hi Tom
Thank you so much for your time in replying this. Yes. It looks like its the name issue. I renamed the external hard drive same as the previous one and it all worked. Thank you so much!
Issue Opening up FCPX project from an External Hard Drive
