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Installing X & 7, same drive, what about plugins, prefs, etc?
I’ve read the “best practice – install separate boot”, and the bit about how to do the “folder shuffle” from Apple when installing on the same drive, BUT…. if you do the latter, what about preference files, plugin folders, etc? What does X do to these files? Is the FXPlugs folder shared by both apps? What about Library/App Support/Final Cut Pro/plugins? Mostly I’m worried about these files getting moved or deleted.
Follow-up question; I’ve searched, but can’t find a definitive answer whether it’d be best to run X & 7 on Lion or SL. I’m debating whether to go Lion for 7 & X, or stay SL. This isn’t long-term, probably no longer than end of 2012, as the X debate shakes out.
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What kind of computer do you have? Just curios if you can add another drive.
You can use X and 7 on the same drive, but you should think long term about this.
On my laptop and desktop test machines, I have separate drives that have Lion/X on them. My laptop has X and 7 on the same Lion drive, but I can always boot to SL, and if using FCP7 for work, I boot to SL. I have frozen by non-test production drives at SL and 10.6.8. My laptop has the MCE optibay in it, which is really awesome. I’ve had a separate boot drive in my desktop for a while, but the laptop drive is very new.
One of these days, Lion is going to break 7. It’s inevitable as the switch moves from QT to AV Foundation.
If you are planning to keep FCP7 around (and how can you not, eventually you might need it to resurrect old projects) I recommend getting a separate boot drive.
At the very very least, make a disk image of your current boot so you can restore it at a much later date in case you need to use fcs3 in the distant future.
Of course, I don’t really mess around with this stuff as system downtime is something I try and avoid at all cost. I simply can’t afford it. You will hear that people run x and 7 in the same drive with no issues (my laptop Lion drive is a test case for this), but I can get a working SL boot drive at any given time. Perhaps you don’t work this way, and then it’s up to you.
Jeremy
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More or less I agree with Jeremy. Less in so far I hadn’t had any problems running both at the same boot drive, unfortunately for what ever reason you can’t run them same time cause they share a common process – this was much easier with legacy version of FCP.
Thinking about plugins, prefs etc. there is no problem as legacy and X don’t share any of the paths. Was different with legacy versions of FCP when you did run different versions on the same machine.
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THanks guys. That’s right, Jeremy – I’d forgotten about the AV Foundation issue. And with the question about path conflicts resolved, that makes it easy; I’ll stay on SL, running both on same drive. At such time as I deem necessary, my current system drive will, as you put it Jeremy, get “locked off” as a secondary boot drive.
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