Play Head on Timeline

Hello,
This hasn't happened to me before. I transfered over a final cut project from one computer to another and when i play my video on the timeline, it plays but the playhead doesn't move. Once i press the space bar to stop playing the video. The playhead jumps to the point where i stopped it. But it doesn't follow if i'm playing it back on the timeline. Where do i go to change this. It's rather annoying.
Thanks

I transfered over a final cut project from one computer to another and when i play my video on the timeline, it plays but the playhead doesn't move
there's no configurable setting I know of (project specific or otherwise) that would cause this kind of playhead behaviour
it seems most likely that your system is simply not able to keep up with the complexity of the playback in this project and consequently the playhead refresh is lagging.
is it happening on all projects or just this new one?
is it a mixed format timeline, and what codecs are being used? are there any filter effects or motion applied in the sections where the playhead falters? how many layers of video/audio.
some quick fox things to try:
close all other open sequences
"save as" the project to a new file
quit FCP and reboot your Mac
if none of that helps, then try the old favourite .... trash your FCP preferences

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