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Clean Install
After utilizing my G4 and FCP 4.0 for the past 4 years, I decided to finally update my OS software and FCP, w/apple downloads. This introduced all kinds of problems. After hours with apple support, it seems I need to do a ‘clean install’. I want to make sure I do this correctly w/o losing 4 years of media files.
I have some info from Apple on how to do this, but I wanted to hear from you FCP experts!!Please let me know if this sounds correct.
I am copying all of my media from my internal drives to two external hard drives, for backup. Do I need to do any other backups on my current FCP projects?After that, I am booting and reinstalling from my original G4 OSX CD.
At this point, do I need to partition my drives?
After I have installed OSX, I will upload to 10.3.9 Can I use my OSX disk from my laptop that has 10.3 or just stay with 10.2 that came with my original G4?
After I have uploaded all the new OSX files, then I will reinstall FCP 4 and then update it to 4.5.
Cross my fingers and hope that it recognizes my NTSC devices, which stated this whole process.Am I missing something? Any help would be much appreciated!!
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Back everything up with SuperDuper or carbon copy cloner.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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[L Dee Johnson] “I am copying all of my media from my internal drives to two external hard drives, for backup.”
You are storing media on your system drive? That is a BIG no no. Causes lots of problems, dropped frames just to start.
[L Dee Johnson] “Do I need to do any other backups on my current FCP projects?”
Back up all your FCP project files onto another drive or CD/DVD. You should get into a habit of backing them up to another drive every night after your session.
DO NOT PARTITION. It gets you nothing. Again, do not store any media on the internal drive…even partitioning it and putting the system on one partition and the media on the other is still putting the media on the same physical drive. No…separate drive only.
Boot from the CD…reformat the drive, install.
Shane
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net
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