Trashing FCP Preferences

Having random issues with Final Cut Pro? Then you may have corrupted your preference files by not shutting down properly, interrupting certain processes or pushing the system too hard...

1. Quit FCP.
2. Open your System Drive.
3. Set to Column View.
4. Follow the path: Users > Name > Library > Preferences.
5. In the Preferences Pane look for "com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist". Drag the FCP plist to the Trash.
6. In the same Preference Pane, look for the Final Cut Pro User Data Folder.
7. From inside the Data Folder, drag 'Final Cut Pro (v) Prefs', 'Final Cut Pro Obj Cache' and 'Final Cut Pro Prof Cache', all three shown below in green, to the Trash.
8. Do NOT empty the Trash.
9. Launch FCP and check all your settings. All FCP setting will have reverted to default. Don't forget to reset your Scratch Disk settings.
10. Once FCP is up and running, empty the Trash.

There is also a freeware tool available from digital rebellion for backing up and managing FCS preferences which handles all of the software packages, not just FCP:

http://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm