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  • Avid Media Composer 3.5 Trial Version NOT WORKING

    Posted by Olaf Steel on March 26, 2009 at 10:26 pm

    Hi,

    I just downloaded the new trial version of Avid Media Composer 3.5 on my MacBook Pro.
    When I start Avid, after the loading screen, when the editing work area pops up, I get an error message saying: File ‘Avid Projects’ Not Found. All I can do is press OK, which just makes the box reappear, the only thing thing that I can do then is quit the application, as none of the buttons work on AMC.

    I have uninstalled and reinstalled Avid several times as well as downloading it again and reinstalling it.

    Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

    Olaf

    Bernie Hipos replied 17 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 11 Replies
  • 11 Replies
  • Michael Phillips

    March 26, 2009 at 11:06 pm

    What version of the OS are you running?

    Michael

    Michael Phillips

  • Olaf Steel

    March 26, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    Mac OS X 10.5.6

  • Job Ter burg

    March 27, 2009 at 4:40 pm

    Did you uninstall previous versions of the application?

  • Olaf Steel

    March 27, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    Yes, I think so. Although to be honest I am relatively new to Mac, and perhaps I am not doing everything necessary to uninstall an application completely… I just moved it to the recycle bin and emptied it… I’m not sure if maybe there are other files and apps that might have been attached to that that are stored elsewhere and need to be deleted separately.

    Thanks for helping me with this

    Olaf

  • Michael Phillips

    March 27, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    There are actual Avid uninstallers in the Applications folder that you need to use. Dragging to the trash does not do a complete uninstall.

    Michael

    Michael Phillips

  • Olaf Steel

    March 27, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    If I have dragged the application to the trash, how can I get rid of the remaining files/apps that were part of the original installation?

  • Michael Phillips

    March 28, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Did you try running the unistaller anyway? I always run all the unistallers, even if I think I never installed the application in the first place.

    Michael

    Michael Phillips

  • Olaf Steel

    March 29, 2009 at 11:14 am

    I have tried uninstalling the app, using AppTrap. However, I don’t understand how you can uninstall an app if you dont know whether its there or not…
    What method of uninstalling do you use?

  • Michael Phillips

    March 29, 2009 at 1:41 pm

    There are specific Avid provided uninstallers in the applications folder. It is called “Avid_Uninstallers” Use all of them, even if you never think you installed all of the them in the first place and try again.

    Michael

    Michael Phillips

  • Olaf Steel

    March 29, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    I’ve done that. Still get the same error message when I try to run Avid after reinstalling

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