FCP and a stuck force quit
hello
i have the final cut studio 5.1. it has been working ok on smaller projects. now however ti won´t work properly giving me beach balls at least 4 times a day which results in the only way out to force quit. Which works.
however - it will keep its little triangle icon in the dock and thus won´t allow for me to reopen the app.. the only thing i can do is to reboot the whole machine - which is really annoying... trying to force quit again won´t help - and even apple alt esc will find fcp and will take it out of its list if i press force quit there - but the app keeps coming back to the list...
this problem has been bugging me for days.. .is there any other way of killing it so that it is truly dead? via terminal? maybe? if so, how??
thanks for all help!
enno
> i have 1.5 sure i could stack it up but it should work
with just 1.5 as well...
Oh - I see . . .
So Apple are just kidding when they say 2 GB minimum?
(I don't think so)
It may not be the actual cause of your problem but it certainly isn't enough RAM - and RAM problems can cause many faults.
Are you running two external HDs at once?
I think your System is under powered for what you are trying to do.
You don't have enough free space and you're just asking too much of it.
Remove all Firewire and external devices, and try running something easy, like word for an hour or so. If all goes well, try a different App (but just one App at a time) gradually building up to FCP last.
If all seems to be OK, reconnect some hardware one at a time. If you hit trouble, you know what to suspect - so re-start the test, but this time, using the suspect App or Hardware first. If the problem re-occurs you should be able to prove what's causing it.
Andy
G5 Quad 8GB. 250+500 GB HDs. G-Raid 1TB. FCP 5.1.1. Shake 4.1. Sony HVR Z1E Mac OS X (10.4.7)
"I've taught you all I know, and still you know nothing".
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