Old problem with compressor

Hi There,
I am using a somewhat older version of FCP (5.0.4)
A few years ago I remeber having some trouble with the compressor.
It could not find the file's or something like that.
Someone in this forum helped me to solve the problem.
If I remeber well something had to be changed in prefernces.
The forum does not contain this old questions anymore, I regret to say.
The problem now is that after editing in FCP and exporting to the Compressor it gives a warning
"error trying to open source media file"
After clicking the ok button nothing happens.
Does anyone have a clue?
Thanks in advance
Thijs

I thought it had something to do with misplacing the original files but alas

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