will upgrading to tiger make me reinstall FCP4.5 and other app’s?

[Tom Adams]

i just installed tiger with same set up…had no major problems…went pretty darn smooth, in fact…

only trouble was my windows media player (for mac) won’t play files anymore. i’ve been told to just reinstall windows media player…haven’t tried that yet.

also, i upgraded to fcp 5 at the same time because i have heard that there some issues with 4.5 running on tiger…don’t know what theissues are but i amgine fcp gets tripped up or bugging. might be worth investigating more…or upgrading to fcp 5 if possible. the multicam feature is really awesome if you ever need that kind of thing.

[Debe]

Technically, no.

However, if you want to avoid many of the perplexing problems many folks have, the smartest, and eventually LESS time consuming thing to do is to completely start from scratch.

Backup your current disk (as I’m sure you would under any upgrading situation). I recommend using Carbon Copy Cloner. Or, if you really want to get fancy and be uber-vigilant in protecting your data, just get a new drive and put the current one in a very secure place. That way, you can revert quickly and easily. If you actually end up needing it, the expense of the extra hard drive will be well worth it. Drives are CHEAP these days, even the good ones!

After you’ve chosen your favorite backup method, initialize the drive, whether it’s new or the old one. Start with the freshest disk you can get.

Install Tiger. Apply the appropriate updaters. Get your OS working to your satisfaction before you start installing your Apps.

Repair permissions. Run Cocktail, MacJanitor or Yasu, if you have it. If you’re really fastidious, use Carbon Copy Cloner to back up all the work you just did installing the OS.

Then start installing Apps. Repair permissions after every few App installs. Some do it after EACH App. I think that may be too much, but…

With Tiger and FCP 4.5, I think you need to revert to QuickTime 6.5.2. QT 7 and FCP 4.5 don’t play well together. There’s a link on the Apple site under the QuickTime tab for reverting. Only do this is you have problems with FCP.

It’ll take you the better part of a day, but if you spend any amount of time on these boards, you’d likely start to see a pattern, and you may come to the conclusion that it’s well worth the investment of your time. Many of the folks who have odd issues, and there are so many that it’s hard to list, many of those folks did piecemeal upgrades. This System and these Apps are very complicated. It’s best to start fresh. It’ll save you a lot of future hair-pulling.

If you don’t have the time, then wait. If you don’t have the day to devote to this, you certainly don’t have the day to track down what went wrong with a piecemeal upgrade, either.

debe