Alexander Kallas
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What Codec and specifications is your source media, and what Compressor settings are you using?
Also your hardware specs?Cheers
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[Mark Slocombe] “If I erase one of the 500gb drives that I use for media in my MacPro (keeping current boot drive as is) and install SL and FCS and plugins, and associated programmes on it, when I turn the MacPro on, will I get a dialog offering choice of boot drive or will I need to go into StartUp Disk and select the new SL/FCS drive?
“Only if you clone the boot drive first, and hold the option key on start-up.
Cheers
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[James Martin] “The DV PAL codec is horrid.”
Horrid compared to higher Codecs, perhaps, but it can be sweetend, search this forum.
BTW DV NTSC is worse.Cheers
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[Zane Barker] “Yes you can BUT it MUST be done from disks that came with the EXACT SAME MODEL computer. NO other disks will contain the drivers needed for the hardware of that machine. A retail 10.6 install disk will NOT work ether as the build of the OS on those disks is OLDER then the machine you are trying to put it on and therefore will NOT contain the needed drivers for the NEWER hardware. “
Where does this info come from?
Another view https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/71/860632Cheers
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[Marjonneke Grech] “Great idea – but no… no change. Do you think I should trash the preferences again – and this time empty the trash? I say that because most of my preferences were still intact.
“No need to empty trash, on restart new prefs are created. You can control click on the new prefs and color-code them to distinguish them. Repair permissions, trash the pref again and restart.
Next I would suggest you get the utility called Disk Warrior, if this doesn’t work, then back up your data, mail etc. and reinstall the OS.Cheers
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Try trashing the desktop prefs,
home>library>preferences>com.apple.desktop.plist
drag to trash, don’t empty, restart.Cheers
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Just remember that these will all be on just one Fire-Wire bus, and this will slow down and not be fast enough for editing, depending on your media and codec.
The solution is to add a fire-wire card and create another separate bus. Unfortunately iMacs have no provision for this.Cheers
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OK,
Dumped the Mail prefs, re-launched Mail, reset, still no spinning gear wheel, what to try now?Cheers
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[Zane Barker] “According to my friend who works as a Genius for Apple, Apple has never released a install disk that allows for a reinstall of just Mail.
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The Genius is wrong, my MBP 17 ” core duo 2 came with a specific installer disc which allows custom install of apps. Look at your own post
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/71/860617#reply_box
that says some installers are hardware specific.
However, this did not help.[Zane Barker] “Nope just the Account settings, signatures, filters etc. It should leave the mail boxes in place. But I would make a duplicate of the preference files just in case.
Do you have a Backup of any kind that you could pull a GOOD copy of those files from.
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Which files and where are they please?Cheers
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[Zane Barker] “There is no separate installer for Mail it only gets installed when you install the OS.
“Well no, I have a specific installer disc for this MBP, this allows custom installs, of which Mail is one.
Deleting prefs looks like a total rebuild of mail, and I don’t really want to mess up my correspondence.
Any other way to delete prefs and keep the mailbox intact?Cheers
Alexander