Snow Leopard 101: For Smart People Only

[Mark Slocombe]

Thanks. There’s always something weird going on though, isn’t there?

[David Roth weiss]

[Mark Slocombe] “There’s always something weird going on though, isn’t there?”

Check out my company trademark below… Maybe I’m blessed, but I somehow manage to avoid weirdness and insanity that many consider the norm in what we do.

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

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[Mark Slocombe]

David – any tips on where I should look for good advice re transferring apps from my original OS X boot drive apps folder to my new SnowLeopard one on the same Mac?

I don’t want to transfer the whole lot via Migration Assistant, just the FCS-related ones eg Photoshop, Cinematize, FXFactory – does it work to just copy across, plus items in the /Home/Library/Applications Support/ and/or /Library/Applications Support/ folder as well as preference files store in the /Library/Preferences/ or /Home/Library/Preferences/ folder ?

Mark Slocombe
CreationVideo Ltd
https://www.creationvideo.co.uk

[David Roth weiss]

[Mark Slocombe] “any tips on where I should look for good advice re transferring apps from my original OS X boot drive apps folder to my new SnowLeopard one on the same Mac? “

Resist the temptation to copy apps. You will for sure encounter some issues. You’ll need to reinstall. Copying plugins may work, but some may have SL updates. Preferences could be transferred using Preference Manager from Digital Rebellion (free), but you might encounter some issues if those prefs contain anything that no longer works. However, you can just trash if that happens.

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

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[Mark Slocombe]

Hmmmm… the SL and FCS 3 installs onto a clean noot drive have gone well; but now the pain starts with apps – they install ok but the license activations for Episode, Squeeze, Discribe are not happening – I guess they see this as an extra, illegal install of the app – is this the Fatal Flaw in the Clean Install?

Mark Slocombe
CreationVideo Ltd
https://www.creationvideo.co.uk

[Jennilyn Merten]

Admittedly I’m in over my head here. On some bad advice upgraded to SL without doing a clean install of other apps etc. Had some problems with my E-sata drives but mostly no issues after I downloaded the driver again. Now I’m trying to install FCP studio 3 after dumping FCP academic. This process is crashing my system and now FCP is saying, after apparently installing fine, that I don’t have the right specs even though the software detected no install issues. So, forgive me if this is all so terribly obvious, but how do I undo the damage I’ve no doubt done?

Per advice here, I’m backing up my hard drive to an external Lacie drive using SuperDuper and am preparing for a reinstall of SL. BUT–can I reinstall SL and FCP 3 without reinstalling all my apps? (I have an app install disk for my MacBook Pro but not my Mac Pro 3, 8core.) I’m trying to follow the advice set out here, but any other steps I should take?

[Mark Slocombe]

Really what’s needed (and suggested here) is a clean install of SL and FCP on a freshly formatted disk – ie not starting with an SL upgrade. Thereafter you can copy your User settings from your previous installation using Migration Assistant – then I’d suggest freshly installing your most used / important apps.

Mark Slocombe
CreationVideo Ltd
https://www.creationvideo.co.uk

[Bob Cole]

[Mark Slocombe] “a freshly formatted disk”

1. Buy HD for new system drive
2. Format it — how? I have USB/FW ports on my computer, so do I put the new HD into an external enclosure that allows USB/FW access?

Bob C

[Mark Slocombe]

I had a few internal drives in my MacPro that I use for media; I wiped / formatted one and installed SL on that. I wouldn’t trust USB for an external boot drive, too slow at everything – minimum FireWire 800 I’d think, and eSata better.

Mark Slocombe
CreationVideo Ltd
https://www.creationvideo.co.uk

[David Roth weiss]

[Mark Slocombe] “Thereafter you can copy your User settings from your previous installation using Migration Assistant -“

Mark,

I would totally avoid using Migration Assistant. It will copy problems from one machine or system drive to another, thus defeating much of the purpose of a clean install.

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

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.