Clean Install of Tiger & Final Cut Studio – I wish I hadn’t !

[Craig Seeman]

Clean install Tiger, repair permisions and update it to 10.4.1 and repair permissions. Then just install Final Cut Studio and enter the old serial number when it doesn’t find the old apps and repair permissions. No reason to install old apps AFAIK. The very reason that one has to hunt down old serial numbers and, even worse, start installing and updating scores of apps is the very reason why I’m not a fan of clean installs.

[Walter Biscardi]

Why are you installing the older versions of FCP? You don’t need to. Just install FCP Studio and it will ask you to manually enter the old serial number.

I have a second G5 here and did the entire Erase the Install procedure on it and then ran FCP Studio install. Worked just fine and it’s editing happily on some test projects right now.

Just do the Clean Install of Tiger by erasing the harddrive, then install Tiger on it. Update it to 10.4.1. Install FCP Studio. When prompted, enter the serial number from your FCP 4.0. Then Studio will install.

With FCP 4, Apple negated the need to have a previous version installed, it just prompts you for the old serial number.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Now in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Mrvideo]

I don’t know about SuperDuper, as I have never even seen it used, but starting out by installing a new OS version by initializing the boot disk during booted from the install CD/DVD is a very good thing to do.

Finish loading the OS then update to the latest update lke 10.4.1. Thn run Disk Utility – Repai Disk Permissions.

Now install the Studio as suggested by the Apple install documents. Run Repair Disk Permission again and it should be GOOD!

[Godfrey Pye]

Craig, Walter Mr. Video – thank you all for your input. Forgive me for not being able to respond until now because my computer has been up and down like a fiddlers elbow.
I have even been back to a clean install of Panther – with the same result by the way, that is, everything opens at normal quick speed we have all come to know and love – everything except for FCP – any version of FCP! It’s still as slow as treacle on either Panther or Tiger.

Currently I’m doing a clean install of Tiger – again – and then I will install FCP 5 (using the numbers as required – an excellent time-saving tip by the way, thank you) and I will report progress as and when I get some.

Wish me luck.

Godfrey

Godfrey Pye
Mulholland Bays – in the Hollywood Hills

[Craig Seeman]

Here’s this tip from Philip Hodgett’s ProAppsHub. Updating prebinding can fix slow to open apps. I’d post a link instead but there’s no way to do that given the way ProAppsHub works. It’s a great resource so I’ll post the link to where you can read about and download “The Hub” https://proapps-hub.com/

OS X Applications slow to open?
Despite the name, prebinding has not bondage overtones. Prebinding accelerates the launching of applications that are made up of more than one file. Most applications on OS X have many files inside the application “bundle”.
Control + Click on an application and select “Show Package Contents” to see the files that make up the application. This is particularly interesting for Final Cut Pro or DVD Studio Pro.

Most of the additional files are Libraries of prebuilt functions that are shared between applications rather than being included in the application directly. Libraries included in an application are “static linked” while any of the 150 or so libraries included in the default installation of OS X and only linked to the application are considered “dynamically linked”.

However, all this looking up of libraries and making sure all the symbols (individual functions, classes, constants, globals, etc.) are there in the library would take a long time when the application launches. Instead prebinding improves launch times because prebinding creates a cache of all those symbols already bound to the application. That’s why an installer goes into an “optimizing for performance” phase after installing an application – that’s prebinding.

If the prebinding didn’t happen, or the cache has become broken, and the application is slow to open even when there’s plenty of available RAM, try prebinding manually.

To force OS X to go through all applications and make sure that all the linkages are up to date and that caches are bound to the applications:

Repair permissions for the boot drive using Disk Utility;

Open the Terminal from Applications > Utilities;
type: “sudo update_prebinding -root / -force” (without the quotation marks)

Ignore the lines of text that will scroll through your Terminal window. That means the command is doing its work.
The whole process should only take a few minutes, although if you have a lot of applications installed it could take up to an hour. While the prebinding is happening your computer will slow down. Prebinding is something best done over a break.

When the process is finished reboot your computer.

[Godfrey Pye]

Well, after a few days of trauma, I’m now working again – thanks to you and the other fine folk who helped me through my clean start nightmares.

You were quite correct about installing FCP5 while registering under the number of FCP3 (my original purchase), ignoring the other upgrade stages (FCP4 & FCP4.5 completely).

Now that I know, it makes complete sense to me and I feel kind of stupid not realizing it in the first place. However, there are a number of people I’ve spoken to who didn’t realize that your suggestion is the way to go – so maybe this discussion will continue to help people avoid my nightmare as they upgrade.

One thing though – I tried the “Open the Terminal from Applications > Utilities; type: “sudo update_prebinding -root / -force”. The computer just laughed at me, it gave me three lines of kindof jokey text and didn’t go through any cleansing process. Ah well, never mind, I’m up and running again and I am happy. Many thanks.

Godfrey Pye
Mulholland Bays – in the Hollywood Hills