Copy or Move Projects (to Prevent Opening All Projects)

Oh, one more question. Let's say in the new Library I need extra original media from the old on that has not been Move / Copied as part of the Projects, do I Move or Copy, and is there a difference?  Same question for external media, and here once again the question, since presumably it just keeps the linkage to external media, what is even the difference between Moving & Copying? I repeatedly fail to see a meaningful difference.

Thanks, I think I mostly get it. Moving projects to a new library on the same drive does not copy the media, which is great. Does that mean Copying the project *does* copy the media? In which case, I assume there's truly no reason to Copy a project unless it's going to be used on another system (with no centralized hub) or maybe for some reason an external drive?

This is my big issue, described above but maybe I can be more clear: When I start working in a Library with lots of projects, inevitably I click on something like a Smart Collection or Keyword Collection, then a dialogue come up, "Loading Project X, Y, Z, or more fitingly A thru Z." So I have long, long waits while it loads dozens of projects I don't need access to. My hope then is to move projects into a new library to use there and not have to load ones I don't need. I'm pretty sure moving projects even temporarily to a new Library has been suggested by others, unless I misunderstood.

If that doesn't work, is there a way, (or a better one,) to use projects from this Library without opening the others? It's dragging things down unbearably....

I appreciate it, but any suggestions on where to start with load time issues? I mean, besides hard drive performance, because I do maintenance, I do trash pref's, but anything workflow related I could try? In pracitcal terms, my issue is not that it loads *too slow* so much as it's loading **too much** stuff that I don't need!

It just seems like there would have to be a way to work with existing projects without loading a ton of others, No??

Thanks Tom

To the second point, I may certainly rethink in the future. I appreciate the responses but, I'm asking to please read this part closely to distinguish the problem. The problem is not when I open a project to work on it. Here's what happens, and I've seen others describe this: 1. Open FCPx 2. Select the Library I want. 3. Maybe I open a desired project, maybe not, but either way, after doing a few actions in the Browser, THIS problem occurs: 4. FCP dialogue pops up at the top, with an action progress bar and it says "Loading project "______," a project I have not selected nor was working with in previous session. THEN, it proceeds to "Load" / *Not Open* one project after another, sometimes a dozen or more. The progress bar completes on one project, then moves to the next. Unlike something in the Background Tasks moniter, there is no way to stop this, and it hangs everything up as it "Loads" all this stuff I don't want or need. If I force quit the application and restart, same thing happens. Does that makes sense as to how this problem is unique from the solutions offered above? Thanks again.

(2/2 replies) I don't know if maybe it's a standard function to just "Load" all the projects in a Library when you start up, but it doesn't do that automatically - were that the case I'd start it up and work on something else. No, on start up it loads the media and when that's done, the Background Tasks monitor shows nothing left to be done, even if it's idle for 10 minutes. But then when I start doing anything in the session, here comes the "Loading project bar" ordeal. So you can see how disruptive this is to workflow, and doesn't seem to make any sense?

I'm on 10.4.6 btw

Well false alarm on the Moving issue, it was fixed on a restart.  What still showed in the source library before is now gone.  I do trash preferences and have used Digital Rebellion stuff for maintenance.  Could try that today but just so I know my biggest problem, a straightforward question:

Is the behavior of "Loading" these projects I'm not using an aberrant behavior, or is it just doing something it's supposed to do, but slower or at the wrong time?  Is it even SUPPOSED to load all projects in a Library including ones you're not using?   That seems like the main question before troubleshooting further.  Thanks. 

Great, thanks, and I now see you did answer that in your previous reply, sorry I'm a bit frazzled. It does seem that creating a new library to hold moved projects from the old one is a fair workaround for the issue, but it's very good to know it is a malfunction and I'll do all maintenence I can. in fact I'm getting a solid state drive soon, so that might do it.

I really appreciate the help, just one last different issue perhaps worth mention regarding the Moved project thing, happening even though Move seems to be working.  In the Moved project, I select an original file and Reveal in Finder, it shows a full file in a the Original Media folder as a subset of folder under the New Library's name.  It's not an alias, a full playable file.  I checked in the original Library for the same file, Reveal in Finder, and it likewise shows a full playable file in the original media folder hierarchy.   One thing suggested it didn't create a new file is the one showing under the new library has Creation and Modified dates matching the original.  But wouldn't it show as an alias an not like it's own new playable file if it was not copied?  Just trying to understand.  Thanks. 

Awesome, thanks a million Tom.

Oh wait, i didn't your response yet Tom, (thanks) I'll read it now.