Mark Slocombe
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thanks. There’s always something weird going on though, isn’t there?
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Hey David, Walter – would really appreciate advice on this (basic) question:
– and if I boot on the new drive, do I still see original boot drive and the media drives in Finder, and can share media on them to FCS on new drive?
Mark Slocombe
CreationVideo Ltd
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Cheers – and if I boot on the new drive, do I still see original drive and the media drives in Finder, and can share media on them to FCS on new drive?
Mark Slocombe
CreationVideo Ltd
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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?
Mark Slocombe
CreationVideo Ltd
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We are backing up the boot drive via TimeMachine; does the TimeMachine BackUp work as a clone in terms of being able to boot from it?
Mark Slocombe
CreationVideo Ltd
https://www.creationvideo.co.uk -
Cheers – is a ‘clean’ disk in this case one which is completely erased, then install OS then apps from scratch?
Mark Slocombe
CreationVideo Ltd
https://www.creationvideo.co.uk