External Drives Missing from Event Library
My external drives do not appear in the event library. Only my system drive. Specifically, the external drives show up when the project is launched but they disappear almost immediately.
I know there was a problem with time machine drives doing something similar but this is not the case here. My drives are correctly formatted and have never been used for TM.
Oddly things were working fine until the program got hung up on launch and I deleted the prefs (HUGE mistake)
Since then, I have deleted preferences and reinsatlled the application twice to no avail and restarted. Program launches, I see the drives, then they vanish.
I am at a loss.
Thanks for your help.
Running FCP X 10.0.3 on 10.7.2 with 16GB of RAM.
Thanks
We have seen problems when there is a folder on the root of the drive named "video" or some other name that makes FCX think it is a camera card and not a drive. If so, rename that folder and restart FCX.
Of course, you probably know that the drive has to be formatted MAC-OS
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