Pasi Koivisto
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I would suggest you ask this question in the Final Cut Pro forum.
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A really good place to look at disk speed drives and other speed tests.
https://www.barefeats.com/Pasi
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If you’re on a budget you could use the analog component output to the client monitor.
I can’t say anything about which monitor to use, I still hold on to my PVM20L4 since I do mostly SD work but I have been looking into the Flanders Scientific monitors but I can’t get my hands on one in sweden to look at.
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So, you tried the mouse on all usb ports, you tried different mouses and this did not work. You also say the keyboard doesn’t work?
This is either a software problem or a hardware problem. Easiest way to find out is that you boot the G5 from another install or the installation DVD and check is the mouse and keyboard work. If they work you have a software problem, step one would be to install the latest combo updater and if that does not work do a reinstall.
If however the mouse and keyboard does not work it’s probably a hardware problem and you will have to have a apple support technician look at it.
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Check so that the leopard installer isn’t older than the computer.
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1159If the installer disk is older but there’s a update that support that macbook pro you could do a install on a machine that works with the installer, apply the COMBO update to the install and then clone that install using carbon copy cloner or supderduper.
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No, it’s a standard cable. Apple just redid the connector so it would fit with the design.
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Why not get a monitor calibration probe? They’re not that expensive and I’ve had good results with my Gretag Eye-One Display II. In sweden this goes for 380 or so with tax. Should be a lot cheaper in the states. I usually bring this to my clients when I am going to color on their systems, just want my computer monitors to look somewhat decent.
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Hi,
it sounds strange that 3 drives would start to act up at the same time. My guess would be that the problem lies with the computer. Maybe a lose FW port or a bad cable.
Is this happening on USB, FW400 and FW800? Have you tried different cables?
Stupid question, but how did you transport the drives on your trip? Hopefully you had them in your carry on and not in the luggage.
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I am note sure if this will work as I suspect your macbook pro is newer than 10.5.5 and because of that lacks drivers for your macbook pro.
I suspect that you could do some serious surgery to get it to work. First do a clone of a 10.5.5 install and then copy the new drivers from a 10.5.6 install. But I am not sure if this will be a stable solution and I am not sure which drivers you need to copy.
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One problem though – when I open Entourage (also in office x) which my daughter has been using for emails it hasn’t retained any email info at all. Inbox empty, sents empty, drafts empty – everything empty. It behaves like it’s never been opened and used before.
All the data is stored inside the ‘Microsoft User Data’ folder that Office creates in your Documents folder. If office can’t find this folder when it starts up (or one of the subfiles /folders) it will create a new one, giving you an apparent fresh start. So, I guess what you could do is to close all Office applications, throw away that folder on the clone, copy it over from the MacBook, start Entourage and see if that works better.
If I do a clean install of the OS I’m guessing I’ll get an option to carry over the data, settings etc from the FW clone – is this correct?
Or do I just reload the OS (probably stick with 10.5) right over the top and just rely on the clone for a backup if needed?What I would do is a clean install, or erase and install as it’s called in the Leopard installer. This will erase your harddrive and install a fresh copy of leopard. Which I think it really the best way to install.
As for carrying over the data you do get the option to migrate the data, it’s using a application called Migration assistant. If you want you can skip this during the install and then run the migration assistant from the utilities folder. I have never used this as I prefer to redo everything from scratch when I do a clean install. Just to make sure I don’t have corrupt preference files etc carried over from the old system.
I’m happy you appreciate my help and the best to you!
/Pasi
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Editor, Colorist.
Mac Pro, 8×3 Ghz, 8 Gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4870, KONA 3, Sony PVM20L4, Tangent Devices Wave.