What happened to my settings?

Question

Hi,
Saved and quit my project as normal last night. Today, project opens but settings are different.
My favourite effects folder is empty and rendering behaviour has changed.
Is there a way i can get this back?
I bought some fx plug ins yesterday, it was fine, could that have changed settings??
If iv'e lost my settings then my main issue is i need to get back to how my clips used to render.
I was set at unlimited RT and was able to select a clip and render it, but now it won't render at all.
If i change to safe RT then the render line goes red and i can render.
Thing is, i used to be able to play unrendered clips before (even though they still needed renderering) but under safe RT, i get the "Unrendered" message unless i render.
I'm failrly new to FCP and clearly there's a lot to learn but hope you can help with this.
Mario

Answer 1

Sounds like your preferences were corrupted, then reset to factory defaults.
To get the render problem under control, open the sequence menu, and check on all of the colored lines there... then it will render upon command without having to change the RT playback settings.
Favorites are stored in that preference file, so if it's reset, you'll lose them. It's probably a better practice to save these in folders in a project file... I have a project file I'll open full of favorites that I'll open with the working project file so they are always handy... that way I can trash preferences and won't lose these.
Jerry