Fcarch icon vanishes and becomes a folder...

my file extension for fcarch has turned to a folder icon rather than the film can with keyhole.
Can anyone help me... I've tried cocktail but no luck....

Did this happen in the Import window when you wanted to import form a camera archive, or did this just happen in Finder?

- Ronny

Thanks for your interest ...

In the finder

Hi Laurie,

Well, I have seen camera archives temporarily turn into folders when opening them in the FCP X Import window, but this is new. Do you mean instead of the grey film can icon you now have a regular folder with the clips inside it? Strange.

Of course FCP X camera archives are in fact camera folders wrapped in a container, and when you open a camera archive with "Show Package Content" you can see the contents of the camera archive in a Finder window, just like when you open a folder. So you still can import your media from the folder but I have no idea how you can turn that folder back into an FCP X Camera Archive.

Just a question: did this happen overnight or have you tried to open the Camera Archive before it changed into a folder?

- Ronny

It appeared to happen overnight. I've run cocktail again and the whole system noe shows the correct icons again.

That's good news. Thank you for the update.

- Ronny