Why does my Capture Scratch folder end up on my MBP drive?

Instead of my external drive? All my scratch disk settings are set to my LaCie, but any CS files end up on my laptop hard drive and I have to copy them across.

In your case, dunno; but if you open FCP without your external drive attached and powered on, the default resets to the system drive.

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    thought i'd use this post to raise the whole issue of interface elements held over from bygone days ...
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    end of today's musing.
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    I was editing a project in final cut express, a movie of my newborn daughter, and was almost finished. The clips had bin logged and transferred into my sequence. Next morning started the nightmare; almost all the clips had vanished...
    The timeline was full of red boxes that said media was offline. Clips i had rendered were still ok, and clips i had captured from another camera were playing.
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    The directory is part of each hard drive's 'soft structure.' It is created when you partition & format the drive; and then constantly maintained & updated by the OS and drive controller as you use the drive. Just connecting an external HD to another Mac won't resurrect the directory.
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  • Importing photos, where is my capture scratch folder

    Where is my Capture Scratch folder when I import photos?
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  • What Exactly should be in the Capture Scratch Folder ?

    I apologize for the moronic question, but.....
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    I may not be understanding you correctly, but I think you will be ok with what you are doing:
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    For example, on this I have a folder entitled "FCP Docs on HD6" which contain all my scratch disks of Audio Render Files/Autosave Vault/Capture Scratch/Render Files/Thumbnail Cache Files/Waveform Cache Files that I set under FCP preferences. I also have another folder on this hard drive that I have labeled for a client--ex. Smith Project--and in here I keep all the other items for this project--the FCP project itself, any jpegs I'm using, any clips I've made self-contained to do smoothcam on, etc.
    On your external hard drive you can keep what you have done before and not transfer them over to the new FCP Docs folder. The old project will still access those capture scratches from that external drive. (However, if you have now assigned those scratch folders to your new internal drive, when you open this old project and work on it, the NEW captures/renders/etc will be on the NEW scratch disks while what you have done in the past will still remain in the old.) You just have to remember when you are cleaning out your project or saving it to archive that some of your files are on your external.
    You can have different scratch disks on separate hard drives, it just gets confusing if you have too many. FCP will use the scratch disks you LAST assigned. I repeat it gets confusing, just like this explanation probably is
    Sharon
    Message was edited by: SSteele

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