So todays marks what i hope will be the end of the studio update. For anyone whos read my other posts or who is about to jump in to the new Lion os for apple, be wary! It works great….as long as you dont install it the way apple tells you to.

After several false starts following the purchase of Ableton Live 8 Suite and more Pro Tools problems than normal I decided to bite the bullet abd upgrade the mac, after reading sevral forums indicating stable systems of similar spec. I tried the install on my cleaned out macbook pro first and all looked good including Ableton and pro tools,so i brought the mac pro up to speed. It was friday so i left for a gig happy with the install.

Now i dont know what happened over the weekend in a locked studio but by monday morning i was on a full blown whitch hunt for hidden preferences and cache folders that got abondoned as snow leopard was abandoning ship. Not a single app would open on either computer bar browsers and system preferences and my macbook pro was now unable to drag items without them getting stuck to the cursor which fixing the problem quite a pain.

In the end the only solution was to enter recovery mode (cmd + r at startup) and format the system drive and install a clean version of lion without importing data from a previous backup.

Still waiting on a new Pro Tools dongle that as far as i knew i dont need anymore but Ableton is back and better than bofore so at least i can start mixing the projects that were stemmed at the end of the sessions. Expect a few tutorials on that :-)

J

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