I am trying to do a quick time conversion for my final cut pro project and I get the message about not enought disk space on my start up drive. First question is what does that mean in plain English. Second question is that I have 297 GB on my external hard drive and I have used 240 GB of it, leaving over 50 GB of space. My project is only 2 GB so why am I getting this message?
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Free up start up disk space?
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Is your Mac booting from the internal drive or directly from that external? If it is booting from that internal drive how much space is left on it? Video projects often take up several times the actual file size of the project for swap files etc, while they are open. That's is in addition to the usual amount off space OS X uses.
Booting means where your OS X installation is. For example, if you are using a Macbook but have an external drive plugged in for your project and nothing else, your boot drive is the drive in your Macbook, not the external one.
If you copy some stuff from your computer's internal hard drive onto your external to make room, the error should disappear.
I tried converting the project to the internal drive as a quick time movie. After an hour of converting all of a sudden the message "General Error," with no explanation, comes up with an exclamation point next to it. Do you know what this means and how I find out what it means? All I am trying to do is convert my Final Cut project (about 30 minutes long) to a format that I can put on YouTube. Can you suggest a step by step way to do this without encountering constant error messages. I can get the conversion going, but in the middle of all the conversions I have tried I always get nebulous error messages. It is very frustrating because I always use Windows Movie Maker's converter, and FreeMake video converter, with never any issues. Thanks.
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One more time: how much free space is available on your STARTUP DRIVE? If you've answered this question you haven't made it clear.
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