No Recent Libraries

The File->Open Library submenu in my FCPX is not populating itself with recent Libraries. If I choose the "Other" option, I can see the list of recent Libraries in the Open Library dialogue box. Anyone have this happen before and know a way to fix it?

Not broken, works like any other Recently Opened lists. Entries are only remembered for so long before being dismissed. Deleting pref files erases it. Some upgrades can erase it. It is not perpetual, isn't meant to be, that'd be too comber some and bulky.

What you need to do is create an OS X Smart Folder in your Finder sidebar. That makes finding all libraries for any app much faster and easier. I have one for FCPX, Motion, and LPX.

BenB wrote: Not broken, works like any other Recently Opened lists. Entries are only remembered for so long before being dismissed. Deleting pref files erases it. Some upgrades can erase it. It is not perpetual, isn't meant to be, that'd be too comber some and bulky.

What you need to do is create an OS X Smart Folder in your Finder sidebar. That makes finding all libraries for any app much faster and easier. I have one for FCPX, Motion, and LPX.

I understand how a Recent Files menu list works. My point is that mine stays empty regardless of which libraries I open or close... or how recently I've done so. It's not working. So I was asking if anyone had this happen before and how they fixed it before I did the typical stuff (e.g. deleting preferences).

Now the menu having nothing in it ever at all, I've never seen before.

Smg669.

Fyi, I too have never seen my recents populated with previously opened libraries. Even after fcp x is open, and I go to open recent, that menu is empty.

Jl

See if Window>Revert to Original Layout does anything for it.

Russ

Works fine on both my MP FCPX 10.2.1, OS X 10.11 beta and on my public release OS X 10.10 MBP. So it isn't a universal bug. What is different about the systems that have this issue, as opposed to the ones that don't have the issue?

I can't really believe I'm writing this, but I think I have solved your problem:

Go to System Preferences> Recent Items and change that from "None" (which is where I had mine set too) and change it to something like 15.

Relaunch FCP, open a bunch of libraries and (at least in my case) you should see what BenB sees.

Hope this helps.

Jonathan

Nope, only effects the Recent Items menu, in the Apple menu, doesn't effect individual apps, and not FCPX. Just tested on 3 Macs.

And it is in the General section of System Preferences.

Hi BenB.

Well that's really odd. And Yes it is in the General Sys. Prefs, thanks.

You know, when i set the Recents to 15, I did in fact have FCP X open at the time. Not sure if that makes a difference or not. But it sure works for me now, and never did before.

If anyone else can report back that would be great. Smg669???

JL

Just to verify, I have 3 machines: MP, MBP, iMac. Deleted pref files in FCPX, and cleared the recent libraries list, on all three so we had something clean to start with.

Open 10 Libraries in FCPX, they show in the recents list. Quit FCPX, set Recent Items to None. Launch FCPX, all recents still show. Reboot, launch FCPX, all recents still show. Quite FCPX. Set Recent Items to 5, launch FCPX, no change I still have 10 Libraries listed. There's no technical connection between "Recent Items" which is specific to that function in the Apple menu, and individual applications. Not sure if a developer can even access that control from an app, either. I'd say something else happened along the way. I can't make any of three Macs change FCPX's list when changing the Recent Items setting in SysPrefs. An Apple engineer buddy says there shouldn't be any connection, either, but you never know.

Will be interesting to see what results anyone else gets.

Again, would also be interesting to discover what is the difference between Macs with the FCPX list issue, and Macs without it.