Final Cut Quit and Deleted All My Footage
I was working on a project in Final Cut Pro X when suddenly the application quit with a very brief error message attached (which I could not read in time). I then reopened Final Cut and the project was gone, and my events had been cleared. No events, no projects. Everything had been deleted. I searched through my computer for any footage whatsoever and nothing was there. I had directly imported to Final Cut.
There is also this little error icon next to the general event
Does anybody know what happened? Is there anything I can do? I already cleared my camera of the footage.
Thanks!
Heya Pete,
FCPX 10.1 automatically backs up your Library every 15 mins. Try opening a backup Library and reconnecting your media. It sounds like your media was imported into your current Library and that Library became corrupted during an application crash. If that's the case then you'll need to extract your media from your corrupted Library so that you can reconnect the media in a backup Library. In Finder go to the corrupted .fcpbundle file, right-click the file and choose "Show Package Contents". From inside the package contents of the .fcpbundle file you can copy your original media to a location that's outside of the Librabry bundle file. Once the media is copied outside of the Library bundle file then you will be able to locate it when you attempt to reconnect your media from a backup Library.
Hope that helps!
Jasper Thayer
Apple Certified Trainer
https://FinalCutProX.net
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