FCP wants to open backup drive
Hi,
I'm using FCP on a mac pro. Via superduper I make regular backups of the 'scratch disk' to a usb drive. When opening FCP X it uses the projects en events on the backup drive not from the original drive. Any way to fix this?
No, because SuperDuper! is making clones, so the events and projects have exactly the same IDs. FCP can't load identical projects and events. Duplicates, duplicated from inside the application, have unique IDs. It's likely this will change in a forthcoming update.
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pmac g5 OSX Tiger Mac OS X (10.4.7)Try trashing your preferences . . .
Download FCP Rescue :
http://pistolerapost2.com/fcprescue/
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ThanksBookmark Backups
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'''places.sqlite''' by adding '''.old''' to it. Now right click in the folder
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Edited to correct file name error.
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