FCPX freezes when moving projects

Every time I try and move a project to a different drive FCPX is freezing. All I get is a spinning wheel that says "preparing to process" and the pizza wheel.
I am not moving the referenced events, just the projects themselves. Any ideas?

First trash your preferences.
Try copying it in the app. What drive are you going to, how is it connected and formatted? How big is the project folder?

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Last year I posted the following message, which has been fixed. Summary of repair at bottom of post:
Original message posted Aug 4, 2007:
"For the past several months my iBook G4 has been freezing when moved or bumped lightly. It has also occasionally done some strange things at startup. It sometimes will show just a grey screen and sit there. Sometimes the screen will do some sort of fade transition across the screen, going bright in a wave accros the screen and then to black and then nothing. Sometimes there will be vertical lines in the middle of the right side of the screen of various colors. And the last significant occurance is the occassional static in the display. These video symptoms always occur at startup. If the computer starts up to the desktop it will only freeze if moved or bumped lightly. The cursor sometimes can still be moved after the computer freezes.
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Clean install of OS (Tiger 10.4) with all updates and tested before updating. If have done this before and after wiping the drive clean.
I have removed the extra RAM, reseated the RAM, removed the Airport Extreme card, reseated the Airport Extreme card. I have chaged out the hard drive. I have also disassembled most of the computer to check for any other loose components. The only discrepency I have found was a crimped microphone wire, that is slightly damaged. The screen was replaced a few months after purchase when it had a close encounter with a hot wheel car of my son's. The computer is currently a little over three and a half years old.
I work on computers for a living, specialize in Macs, and have been using Macs since 1986. I am stumped. Can someone please shed some light on this issue by providing a different point of view than my own. Sometimes we need an outside perspective to solve some problems.
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I took the laptop to the Apple Store and sent it in for the flat rate repair, which was a little over $300. They had to replace the motherboard and some of the cable. The bad motherboard was causing video issues, freezing and startup difficulties. The bad cables were causing the freezing when the unit was moved. The laptop has performed exceptionally well since the repair and is still in use. Hope this helps other people out there.

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Scott,
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When you changed systems, did you use Migration Assistant to transfer your files over to your new Mac Pro? You might need to install from the disks in order to achieve native Intel performance. See if you installed Final Cut 5.1 on your G5 then it installed the PPC code... if you put that drive into your Mac Pro or used Migration Assistant to move the app over it is still the PPC code... When you install from the installation disk, Installer determines what system you are installing on (PPC or Intel) and that's what it installs. This goes for all of your "Universal Binary" apps...
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