Repair Permissions

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The next thing to try if Final Cut is still behaving oddly, is a normal system maintenance procedure called repairing permissions. Bad or incorrect permissions can prevent Final Cut from properly reading and writing various files, and can cause many performance issues that you may think are completely un-related, but this is often the culprit.

1. Quit Final Cut (and other running applications).

2. Navigate to the Applications folder > Utilities > Disk Utility.

3. Launch Disk Utility program.

4. In the main window that opens, select your main hard drive from the list in the left side of the window. After it is selected, you will notice two buttons light up- Verify and Repair Permissions.

5. Click on the Repair Permissions button.

This is a "harmless" and quick procedure that can be (and should be) run frequently even when no problems appear to be present. Many users do this once a week. This is only to be done on your main internal "boot" hard drive, but not for additional drives, like media drives.