Stuck opening a project. Get the spinning ball and can never get past that

I've got 4 projects in Final Cut Pro x. When I open the program the beach ball just starts spinning. Already reinstalled the program. What should I do?

Your user account (something in it) is apparently corrupted and it can be quite a slog to track down whatever it is. A few suggestions.
If you back up, using a utility like Time Machine,  restore your user account from an earlier backup version.
This has a few more moving parts, but here are instructions on how to re-build a user account.
Disk Warrior rebuilds hard drive directories and may be useful in dealing with your issue. (I have used DW but not for corrupted user accounts.) A bit of a long shot, but it's a tool worth having in any case.
You could also create administrative rights for a new account and simply not use the old one.
hth.
Russ

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