How to restore trashed events

Question

I trashed some events in FCPX 10.1.1 According to the manual I should be able to restore these but I cannot work out how to do this.
The events did not go into the finder trash, so I presume there is a trash withing the FCPX library, but I cannot find how to acess this in order to restore the events.
Can anyone help please?

Answer 1

I tried trashing a little test event. In FCP X, I control-clicked on the library where that event resided, and chose "Reveal in Finder"; then in the Finder, control-clicked to "Show Package Contents". Sure enough, there was a folder called __Trash, containing my deleted event. Then I quit FCP X and the __Trash folder vanished.
So if you want to recover a deleted event, you will probably need to do it before you quit FCP X.
Now as to actually recovering it, it seems not to be completely straightforward (unless you can undo back to the point where you deleted it, but then you might call it straightbackward... couldn't resist :-)).
Here is a way that may work (no guarantees, of course).
0) Make a duplicate of your library, just in case the following goes wrong somehow.
1) make a copy of the event from the __Trash folder and store it elsewhere.
2) quit FCP X
3) In the Finder, control-click to "Show Package Contents" and place the event folder you copied in step 1 in the appropriate location within the library
4) move the .flexolibrary outside the library package (if all goes well, you may delete this file later)
5) start FCP X again. Hopefully, everything will be restored.
A little explanation regarding step 4: the .flexolibrary contains the database that tells FCP X what is in the library. Just moving the event folder back will not update the database; that is why if you omit this step you won't see the event, even though it is there. If this file is not present, FCP X will reconstruct it from the package contents.