Restoring Backed Up Project To Another Drive Messes Up Effects

I have a project that was edited by someone else. I sent him an external drive with the footage. He used that drive to create, edit and complete the FCPX project and then he returned the drive to me. I wanted to do a test to see what was involved in taking that project from the backup drive and copying it to the RAID of my main edit system.

I copied the event folder and the project folder to the appropriate folders on the root of the RAID. I also copied the supplemental job files (raw camera files, motion files, motion renders, music, stills) - when these files were imported into the event they were linked as opposed to copied to the event folder.

When I fired up FCPX the project and event showed up with all of the media missing. I was able to successfully relink the media. He had several timelines/projects (rough cuts and a final cut) and the early rough cut files play back fine.

On the master project the editor had added effects to pretty much every clip on the timeline - usually it was CrumplePop ToneGrade and Alex4D Smooth Move. I didn't have these, so the clips all played back as a "missing effect" slug. So I quit FCPX, and downloaded/purchased and installed the effects. But when I crack open the project, the effects all still appear as "missing". Inspecting the project shows an alert for missing effects and the clips still play as the red "effect missing" slug. But when I look in my list of effects those two effects are there. I can take each of them and apply them to a new clip in the timeline and it plays/renders fine.

Any idea what's going on here?

When an effect is updated, for example, version of the effect in the timeline are not updated. You need to replace the version in the timeline with the current version from the effects browser. Perhaps the same thing is happening to you with missing effects. Have you tried replacing one of your missing effect notifications with a copy of the effect?

If that works you will then have to determine if the effect parameters were reset, or if they are as set by the original editor. I don't know which way it will go.