Not letting me relink missing files.

Hey there! So what I did was I transferred the data from one hard drive to a new one. I drug the library from the old to the new assuming thats how you do it."its not" so then I deleted the library on the old drive and emptied the trash stupidly. So now all the files are missing but I still have the backup of all the raw video clips. I tried to relink many times and very few actually relinked but most did not leading me to this message.(see attachment) I asked chat got for a while and its not helping that much. Thanks.



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MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.7

Posted on Oct 14, 2025 2:29 PM

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Oct 14, 2025 2:46 PM in response to Joshua7707

What is the source of the media that won't relink?

What are the media filenames it creates?


It's possible that FCP is getting confused because the media filenames within the raw footage folders are not unique and it's trying to relink to the wrong one. If that's the case you will have to determine which source file goes with which FCP clip and relink one by one.

Not letting me relink missing files.

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