Canon Vixia, Log & Transfer, .MTS help!

I have a Canon Vixia. I used to be able to use Log and Transfer to ingest the footage into my Final Cut Pro 7, but all of a sudden it doesn't work. My macbook doesn't even recognize the MTS files, they are greyed out when I use the "Add Volume" button. Did I do something to the camera? I tried various solutions on the apple forums and other sources like copying everything on the SD card and putting it on my desktop and pointing Log & Transfer to the Root folder, but nothing has worked thus far. Any ideas? Any help would be much appreciated, thank you in advance!!

If you have made no changes to your camera, and Log and Transfer has suddenly stopped working - the first step is to trash your FCP preferences.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1846?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
The easy way to do that is to download Preference Manager (free) from Digital Rebellion:
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
Preference Manger will let you archive your existing preferences if you should want to return to them.
If you trash your preferences, restart FCP and have the same problem, post back.
Also, when looking in your manual, see if your camera has a feature that will correct/fix the directory structure on the camera storage card.
MtD

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