FCPX acting up. Seriously.

Hi, Guys!
I closed FCPX on wednesday after finishing an edit with no problems and opened it again today and I had problems all over. I've been using FCPX professionally for a year now, know it quite well and have had no problems that come close to what happened today. I'm not a rookie with computers in general and Macs in partiular either, but I have no idea what I can do to fix my problem anymore.
I'm running 10.8.4 with FCPX 10.0.8 on a 2010 MacPro and have a couple of plugins installed (Magic Bullet Looks, DFX, Neat Video, FilmConvert) The only thing that changed on the machine since wednesday was a FXFactory update 4.0.7. I did not change anything else on the machine since wednesday. All the project's EVENTS are online with no yellow triangles and nothing missing. A couple of projects include compound clips.
The problem is as follows: In one project I can only see the main storyline (which is one clip pro Res422 clip) but NO connected clips whatsoever, no generators, no graphics nothing. I deleted all render files to force FCPX to rerender the timeline (which goes for all the projects I have on my machine), but nothing happens — it renders and the orange bar on top of the timeline desappears, but still just the video on the primary storyline is visible. I another project I see all the videos, but the color effects, I put on do nothing whatsoever. Regardless if they're swichted on or off.
Basically ALL projects that are on my machine are corrupted and behave strangely.
If I make a new project and drag generators in it they are just black, no matter if they are stock generators or self made ones. If I open them in Motion they all look fine.
Here is what I tried to bugfix this with no effects:
- repair permissions on all drives
- uninstall FXFactory
- removed all events and projects from FCPX, opened a new one and tried the generators there. Does't work.
- delete FCPX permissions /with permissions manager)
- uninstalled and reinstalled FCPX
- switched off A/V output to Blackmagic Card
The last thing I tried was to copy all the projects, events and custom motion templates to my 2012 MacBookPro running 10.8.4 with FCPX 10.0.8 and ALL the same plugins that are installed on my main machine.
Guess what: EVERYTING OK THERE. No problems, everything works.
Can anyone enlighten me what the **** is wrong with my MacPro?
cheers
Florian

After three days of trying to solve the problem — I even reinstalled OSX — I gave up and moved to a new user on the same machine and everything works perfectly there.
Although in different forums I got lots of promising tipps, nothing worked.
It's a pity I could not find out what went wrong there and I hope it does not happen again.
Florian

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14. Ok, so FCPx is missing too many features to import old files - can you at least make an import for some things? The media handling side - the bin organization from an old FCP project? Maybe some basic importing - if I have to redo old work 99% of things do not involve any more than a basic transition - the rest is all clips and laying them out properly. Ok and simple compositing would be nice too. I have not found anything I cannot do in a magnetic timeline that I could do with tracks - fine the import will have cap clips and non-linked clips etc. but as long as it plays the same that is an ok starting point.
Ok its the weekend. Time to go back to the family and stop dreaming.
btw I tried going back to FCS7 and Premiere - they are both more capable, but both feel quick clunky after using FCPx - I find myself getting annoyed easily. The scopes and rendering in FCPx is really fantastic and the organization features are way better than subclips (physical storage issues aside). But it has taken a while for me to get to this conclusion; I kept stopping and muttering 'that's it - I want my money back'. But now I hate life since I have no editor I'm happy with now - thanks - you gave me something I get annoyed with, but have made what I used to use equally irritating but for different reasons. Yes yes I know Apple does not read these forums, this is just a personal monologue and no I'm not trying to inflame somebody who's ability to feed his children has been seriously messed with - I really feel for those that depend on editing for a living using FCP7 - I'm just a moonlighter - so please don't respond with vitriol since I sure don't want to end up trying to defend or promote FCPx.

Which ones would those be? Developers or Apple engineers? I know they peruse LAFCPUG, not here.
Regardless. USE FRAKIN FEEDBACK.
That's the only way it's going to help us all, if everyone makes the effort to use it, otherwise you're just blovinating, and there's enough of that on these forums.

FCPX acting up. Seriously.

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