Final Cut Studio 2.0 will not open after Tme machine restore

[David Roth weiss]

[Mike Kommersmith] “I had a major internal drive problem yesterday and I needed to erase my internal drive and do a Time Machine restore on my system.”

Please describe the problem you had that was the cause for such drastic action, it might help to answer your issue.

David Roth Weiss
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Los Angeles

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[Mike Kommersmith]

My system was experiencing problems starting up. It was taking several minutes to boot up. I ran Tech Tool Pro on my internal drive and it reported that I had a volume structure error (-4 ??) After attempting to repair the volume the drive would no longer mount and the the only way I could get my computer to boot up was to use the Tech Tool Pro “e drive.”

I tried several times to repair the volume structure to no avail so I decided to erase the volume, reinstall Leopard and do the Time Machine restore.

Everything has rebuilt on my system. All of my files and programs are there. I just cannot get the Final Cut Studio and Aperture programs to launch.

I figure it has something to do with the software license key.

??

Thanks for all of your help,

Mike

Mike Kommersmith
Coast Media Solutions, LLC
240 Eisenhower Dr. Suite H2
Biloxi, MS 39531
http://www.coastmediasolutions.com
coastmediasolutions@gmail.com

[Tom Wolsky]

Pro apps cannot be restored from backups. They must be reinstalled from the discs. They incorportae system level software that can only be put in which the installer.

All the best,

Tom

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[David Roth weiss]

This is admittedly a reach, but did you do all of the Leopard updates before attempting the Time Machine restore? Time Machine had issues until an update that fixed them, and I’m wondering if you maybe got caught by that gotcha.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[David Roth weiss]

[Tom Wolsky] “Pro apps cannot be restored from backups. They must be reinstalled from the discs. They incorportae system level software that can only be put in which the installer.”

Wow, then clones are still the best insurance, because the ProApps can be “recovered” from a clone for sure.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Tom Wolsky]

They can only be recovered from clones if you clone the drive back. That works fine.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Mike Kommersmith]

Thank you very much for the info and expertise.

It’s time to start cloning my drive…

Thanks,

Mike

Mike Kommersmith
Coast Media Solutions, LLC
240 Eisenhower Dr. Suite H2
Biloxi, MS 39531
http://www.coastmediasolutions.com
coastmediasolutions@gmail.com

[Walter Biscardi]

Did you do a complete restore by inserting your Leopard Disc first and then choosing Time Machine Restore after the machine re-booted via the Leopard Disc? I did this about three weeks ago and everything restored beautifully. Compressor is more wonky since I did that, but that was to be expected as it’s very unstable on all our machines at the moment.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Tom Wolsky] “Pro apps cannot be restored from backups. They must be reinstalled from the discs. They incorportae system level software that can only be put in which the installer. “

Nope, that’s not true if you do a true Time Machine Restore. As described in my previous post, I did this very thing about three weeks ago when our system went completely kaplooie.

Inserted the Leopard Install Disc.

Re-Booted the Machine

Chose the option to “Restore from Time Machine Backup”

Chose a backup from approx. 2 days prior to the system completely going down.

Let Time Machine perform the restore and re-booted.

I was editing immediately with the system up and running.

Time Machine really does work as promised, at least in our case, even with ProApps.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Daryl K davis]

I concur with Walter. Same thing happened to me and all was well.

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