I've been schooled....my Final Cut Pro project will not open....a project that is extremely important to the client...and I
have not yet told them of my delima. I attempted to open the project file and after about 10% of loading suddenly a
message comes up, "General error 41". Can anyone tell me the bad news about this? Can there be good news?

Do you have auto save vault turned on? If so, see if you can open a previous version?

Do you have any large still images in the project? How big is the project file?

--ken

In my first attempts to open the project a box came up saying that 'firefighting.avi' needs to be
changed, use the media manager' or something like that....and then the 'general error 41' came up
This particular clip I recently got from aFootage Firm DVD, a free disc with some useful clips.
I liked one of the clips so I brought it into the project and actually slo-moed a couple of seconds of it.
That just may have been the culprit.

This project has many Motion files, mostly simple text, but one I did some heavy
effects with a video clip.....and as a matter of fact, now that I think of it..
I made a DVD of the timeline for client approval....and that particular
Motion file was missing media, (checker board pattern) which I noticed as I viewed the DVD.
Should I delete the Motion files too? Those I can recreate easyily enough.

I read the article on your site by Scott Barbour.....my media is all on a separate drive, so I've tried
to open the project without the media.... I deleted the render files and deleted the
stock footage clips (these were actually on the Mac hard drive)...with the same result,
general error 41. I looked in the auto save vault....apparently I've turned this preference
off a while ago...(I'll be turning it back on) the last saved project was from October.....it did open though.

I DID back up this project a while ago onto the separate drive...too long ago...it opens
normally but the edit is from weeks ago and doesn't contain all the hard work
I put into this just last week.

I will certainly build my routine now to include backing up after every session on the separate drive.

Do you know about these 'general errors'? Is there a Mac site or somthing
that has a list of them?