"No Movie in File" & "General Error" error messages in 1 sequence only.

I'm using FCP 6.0.3, QT 7.4.5, Mac OS X 10.4.11

I'm running the OS and FCP from my main internal HD,
The audio files from my second internal drive
The Video Files from an external LaCie FW-800 1.2TB drive

I've been editing this huge project for close to a year now. I was 24hr to completion when this fu&?*&?% problem came up. My job is split into projects each with it's own sequence. I've been working on these sequences regularly without problem. Today I open the 4th project and try to render everything that isn't rendered. When I do, I get this message: "No Movie in File". If I place my playhead over it, some parts show up in the canvas, others don't (I just see the last image that updated on the canvas). If I press play over the un-rendered clip I get "GENERAL ERROR" without any numbers next to the message. All my other projectss work fine.

I tried the following:

Repaired my disk permissions
Trashing FCP's user data pref files.
Rebuilding the directory on my audio and video scratch disks
I trashed the render files for that sequence
I tried opening a 1 week old back up copy of the sequence (same)
I created a new project with a new sequence and copying my other sequence's content into it.

Nothing has worked so far. I'm looking at a couple of MONTHS of work if I have to re-create this...

Sounds like a corruption of some kind. First try copying everything in that project to a new project file and see if the problem is still there, to rule out a project-file corruption. If that doesn't work, you may need to look at the media files themselves. Does the "General Error" problem happen on one clip, or all of them?

The Lacie drive also rings some alarm bells for me. They are notoriously unstable. Try this: Backup your project file to a safe place. Then make a copy of it onto your internal drive. Also copy the clip that's having problems to your internal drive. Now disconnect your Lacie drive, cables and all, and launch the project file from your internal drive. Now connect it to the clip in the internal drive. See if the problem persists.


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I just fixed it, lol.

I tried a lucky guess: I notice that an audio file was covering pretty much the whole sequence (room tone) even though it was rendered and parts of it played back ok, I deleted it and the sequence works fine now ô_Ô.

I wrote my reply before I could even read yours.

Although I beat you to it, thanks for your answer. If my problem hadn't been solved your troubleshooting options were pretty good and I'll use them in the future I'm sure.