FCPX crashed, forced reboot, now corrupt file & backups. Have I lost everything?!

mogzieee · Jan 9, 2013, 03:37 PM

Hey techno friends,

So last night I was working on a project in Final Cut Pro X on my rMBP 15". Everything was fine, no crashes, no bugs right up until I try to add some text. Not sure why, but the adding of the text completely threw FCPX and the whole computer crashed! It wasn't even something I could fix with a force quit of FCPX.

Anyway so I had to force shut down and restart my MacBook, which is never a nice thing to do.

This morning when I started re-editing, the whole project has just gone from the project library. The Event with all the clips remains, but sadly not my project.

In Finder, my file still remains:

...but it doesn't like being opened:

...and then when I try opening any of the backups, I just get a solid state of this progress bar, which, after hours of waiting... does nothing. Eventually crashes FCPX.

So guys, is there anything I can do to potentially save this? Many thanks for any tips in advance.

TOMIMOT · Jan 9, 2013, 03:54 PM

Damn that sucks sorry it happened to you. From my knowledge I do believe you lost everything unless you backed up your Mac recently, try using time machine?

mogzieee · Jan 9, 2013, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TOMIMOT

Damn that sucks sorry it happened to you. From my knowledge I do believe you lost everything unless you backed up your Mac recently, try using time machine?

Thanks for the response man, really appreciate it.

Unfortunately I think you might be right. Sadly no there isn't any Time Machine backup for this laptop

osx-addict · Jan 10, 2013, 09:37 AM

This is exactly why I started using Crashplan more than a year ago.. I kept telling myself that I'd buy some decent backup software + hardware to make it seamless but in the end decided that I'd never get off my rear-end to both pony up the $$ to make it happen nor getting the actual time to do the requisite homework & associated time investment. So, I bought a 2 year Crashplan package and it's been backing things up since (yes, encrypted with their highest level of encryption)

Jan 9, 2013, 03:37 PM	#1
mogzieee macrumors 6502a Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Southampton, UK	FCPX crashed, forced reboot, now corrupt file & backups. Have I lost everything?! Hey techno friends, So last night I was working on a project in Final Cut Pro X on my rMBP 15". Everything was fine, no crashes, no bugs right up until I try to add some text. Not sure why, but the adding of the text completely threw FCPX and the whole computer crashed! It wasn't even something I could fix with a force quit of FCPX. Anyway so I had to force shut down and restart my MacBook, which is never a nice thing to do. This morning when I started re-editing, the whole project has just gone from the project library. The Event with all the clips remains, but sadly not my project. In Finder, my file still remains: ...but it doesn't like being opened: ...and then when I try opening any of the backups, I just get a solid state of this progress bar, which, after hours of waiting... does nothing. Eventually crashes FCPX. So guys, is there anything I can do to potentially save this? Many thanks for any tips in advance. __________________ I have some Apple Products but I won't bore you with the details. I make videos and websites. website, blog, twitter.
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Jan 9, 2013, 03:54 PM	#2
TOMIMOT macrumors regular Join Date: Jul 2011	Damn that sucks sorry it happened to you. From my knowledge I do believe you lost everything unless you backed up your Mac recently, try using time machine? __________________ 2011 15" MBP Intel i7 2GHz 8GB RAM - White iPhone 4S 16GB - iPod Classic 160GB - iPad Retina (4th Generation)
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Jan 10, 2013, 09:37 AM	#4
osx-addict macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2013	This is exactly why I started using Crashplan more than a year ago.. I kept telling myself that I'd buy some decent backup software + hardware to make it seamless but in the end decided that I'd never get off my rear-end to both pony up the $$ to make it happen nor getting the actual time to do the requisite homework & associated time investment. So, I bought a 2 year Crashplan package and it's been backing things up since (yes, encrypted with their highest level of encryption)
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