Weird: Hiding FCP makes it inaccessible again

Hi. From earlier today, if I hide FCP then I can't get it back. Clicking on the icon on my dock won't bring it back up and won't even let me quit it.

Using the Apple+TAB option won't open it up when i land on the FCP icon.

All I can do is Force Quit it and restart it.

Weird. And why? Anyone had this experience. I haven't done anything different today from the last 6 years!

Using FCP 7 and a 2 x 2.26 Quad-Core running 10.5.8 OS X


This is bloody frustrating and just plain weird.

Ta

Ok,

just trashed my preferences and it's fine now, though I hate having to go back and redo everything I did setting it up the way I like it.

But any ideas why this might have happened, or is it just one of those bit of binary randomness that 'just happens'?

Sometimes this used to happen whenever a DV or similar device was connected. Just happens randomly. But if you can repeat it on command- send in a bug report.

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Noah

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I hope it doesn't repeat itself, but if it does will let you all know.

Painfully putting all my Prefs back... and yes, making a copy of them this time.

To ease the pain of putting your prefs back, get hold of the briliant Preference Manager...
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Cheers Mike, will do.

Trashing preferences is something you only have to do occasionally - in my opinion, the truly brilliant thing about Preference Manager is it's ability to assign capture scratch disks on a project basis. For some inexplicable reason, FCP sets these at the programme level, rather than for each individual project. I have a number of external media drives - each one for a different project - and I never have them all running all the time. Without Preference Manager, FCP will throw a minor fit on startup if it can't find the right disk - and this can be a real pain when switching between projects.