Hey fellas,
Long story short I got some craziness happening here and I
REALLY need ur help/guidance, it's a big mess...
Setup is as follows:
PT 9.03HD
Snow Leopard 10.6.6
APPLE iMac (12,2 27" mid-2011 model)
Internal SATA 1TB
LaCie Little2BigDisk 240 GB THunderBolt SSD
Split into 2 partitions (120GB), one for VI's/Samples, other has been empty
LaCie D2 Quattro 2TB Via FW800 into FW400 to
DIGI 003 Factory
Things were fine until Monday nite, PT 9.03 Hd (on SATA HD) booting up fine, scrolling through plugin names, then rite before DAE Prefs /Midi Pref loads...it stops, no PT screen...nothing. Tried everything, deleted Prefs via Prefs manager, then got this message: AppleScript: Users/Johnh%#^/Library/Preferences/Protools/*Pref*(1) doesn't exist. I've also gotten a similar one, something like this: Users/John^#</Library/com.digidesign.protools.*plist*
And it didn't, looked and saw nothing there, no DAE Prefs either.
Uninstalled and reinstalled PT9.03, no difference. Then Disk Utility shown SATA was corrupt, repaired it via start-up disk fine. Still messing up the same. Like it isn't finding any Prefs/plist/etc. Blows my mind up trying to figure it out.
So I tried installing OS Snow Leopard 10.6.6 via disk on the empty partition of the SSD (it's all formatted OS Extended Journaled, JBOD not RAID) then installed PT9.03 (yes, I uninstalled it from the internal SATA prior). Should mention I also specified the SSD slice/partition to be the default Start-Up Disk.
First time PT9.03 booted up perfect created tracks/inserted some plugs...A OK...So I went and made sure all typical PT optimizations were in effect. Restarted iMac. Then before even opening PT9.03, I started installing some plugins like Lexicon PCM/Slate VTM/Ozone 5/Waves/Elysia/etc...time to time I noticed the spinning ball of doom/bogging down, to the point it wouldn't stop, even Force Quit options wouldn't do anything. Restarted the iMac and booted up PT9.03, spinning ball again...no force quit again. Restarted and opened Disk Utilty, checked permissions and several were different. Repaired ok. Then Verify Disk...said SSD partition is corrupt, volumes differed by a couple digits. Inserted OS Snow Leopard 10.6.6 Disk and repaired the SSD, said the volume appears OK...great, eh? Well restarted and finished installing plugins.
After work this eve I was eager to check it out: tough luck. After boot-up, I soon noticed bogging down/spinning ball again, force quit no use, checked and only used about 20GB of 120GB on that SSD (connected via ThunderBolt), it should by no means be slow at all...am I rite? Checked permissions and the window didnt should checking this/that, verifying this/that, just went straight to saying verification successful(something like that). Odd I thought. Then Verfiied Disk (SSD), Disk Corrupt, Needs Repairing...so I repaired it again...Volume appears OK...So I restarted the iMac, and tried to boot PT9.03....whaddaya know? It does EXACTLY the same as it did first on the SATA HD. Began booting up, scrolling alphabetically thru each plugin, twice of course, then rite where it always says something like Loading DAE Prefs>>Loading MIDI Prefs>>Loading Pro Tools/Session Info...it drops off the screen...gone. I should say this even happens the first time PT boots up, even rite after fresh install. When I delete Prefs just to try it, I'll get one of those AppleScript messages saying Users/John#%%^/blah/blah/com.digidesign.protools*plist or /blah/blah/DAE *Prefs*(1) does not exist.
I'm at a loss for words at what to do here, and I really need some ideas where to start/what it could be. Has anyone seen this occur before? I've used this set-up (virtually brand new ext HD's btw) for the last 6-8 months and it's been perfect, no problems at all. I haven't changed anything here, same OS/disk...I can't believe how this stuff happens but it sure does. I'm a newbie but I've spent a lot of time just reading everything to not have these problems occur, btw please be kind (I'm sure there's something I've said that is t clear enough/etc but I'm trying my best to explain what's happened. I'm just a musician wanting be able to record some great tunes not tuna studio. Unfortunately, if ya want it, ya gotta put in ur dues and learn this part of it too.
Anyways, I'll take any suggestions, hoping this is a simple fix. Wonder if I should create another user account, if my user account info is somewhere it shouldn't be and Protools can't find it. Anyone heard of this happening before?
Like I said, when I manually look for the DAE Prefs, there's nothing there, no plists either. Ive looked and didn't see anything on avid's support saying PT 9.03 has this problem occurring, nor OS Snow Leopard 10.6.6. But I did see something odd after installing the OS on that SSD partition. Along with the spinning ball of doom/bogging down(with virtually any action at random), I
noticed this: the main volume slider at the top-right corner of the screen (by AirPort/etc....well it was greyed out/greying out at random and unresponsive.
I looked this up on the Internet and saw ALOT of the same complaints about it occurring w/ Snow Leopard 10.6._, even Leopard, or others. Apparently it is a known "bug" in Snow Leopard 10.6 that happened a lot. Could be fixed by plugging/unplugging headphones; that will trigger it back responsive until it goes out again. So, it's weird that never occurred before, I've been using 10.6.6 for a good while, never happened before. I still have a brand-new OS 10.6.3 disk as well, should I try that OS instead? I know everyone's for Mountain Lion/PT 11, but I don't have the funds to keep upgrading. Please guys tell me you've seen this before b/c it really sucks bad, I just wanna get back to work with my tunes. Thanks so much for checking this thread and please be nice and not rude like a lot of folks I've seen on here and places like Gearslutz...thanks
Long story short I got some craziness happening here and I
REALLY need ur help/guidance, it's a big mess...
Setup is as follows:
PT 9.03HD
Snow Leopard 10.6.6
APPLE iMac (12,2 27" mid-2011 model)
Internal SATA 1TB
LaCie Little2BigDisk 240 GB THunderBolt SSD
Split into 2 partitions (120GB), one for VI's/Samples, other has been empty
LaCie D2 Quattro 2TB Via FW800 into FW400 to
DIGI 003 Factory
Things were fine until Monday nite, PT 9.03 Hd (on SATA HD) booting up fine, scrolling through plugin names, then rite before DAE Prefs /Midi Pref loads...it stops, no PT screen...nothing. Tried everything, deleted Prefs via Prefs manager, then got this message: AppleScript: Users/Johnh%#^/Library/Preferences/Protools/*Pref*(1) doesn't exist. I've also gotten a similar one, something like this: Users/John^#</Library/com.digidesign.protools.*plist*
And it didn't, looked and saw nothing there, no DAE Prefs either.
Uninstalled and reinstalled PT9.03, no difference. Then Disk Utility shown SATA was corrupt, repaired it via start-up disk fine. Still messing up the same. Like it isn't finding any Prefs/plist/etc. Blows my mind up trying to figure it out.
So I tried installing OS Snow Leopard 10.6.6 via disk on the empty partition of the SSD (it's all formatted OS Extended Journaled, JBOD not RAID) then installed PT9.03 (yes, I uninstalled it from the internal SATA prior). Should mention I also specified the SSD slice/partition to be the default Start-Up Disk.
First time PT9.03 booted up perfect created tracks/inserted some plugs...A OK...So I went and made sure all typical PT optimizations were in effect. Restarted iMac. Then before even opening PT9.03, I started installing some plugins like Lexicon PCM/Slate VTM/Ozone 5/Waves/Elysia/etc...time to time I noticed the spinning ball of doom/bogging down, to the point it wouldn't stop, even Force Quit options wouldn't do anything. Restarted the iMac and booted up PT9.03, spinning ball again...no force quit again. Restarted and opened Disk Utilty, checked permissions and several were different. Repaired ok. Then Verify Disk...said SSD partition is corrupt, volumes differed by a couple digits. Inserted OS Snow Leopard 10.6.6 Disk and repaired the SSD, said the volume appears OK...great, eh? Well restarted and finished installing plugins.
After work this eve I was eager to check it out: tough luck. After boot-up, I soon noticed bogging down/spinning ball again, force quit no use, checked and only used about 20GB of 120GB on that SSD (connected via ThunderBolt), it should by no means be slow at all...am I rite? Checked permissions and the window didnt should checking this/that, verifying this/that, just went straight to saying verification successful(something like that). Odd I thought. Then Verfiied Disk (SSD), Disk Corrupt, Needs Repairing...so I repaired it again...Volume appears OK...So I restarted the iMac, and tried to boot PT9.03....whaddaya know? It does EXACTLY the same as it did first on the SATA HD. Began booting up, scrolling alphabetically thru each plugin, twice of course, then rite where it always says something like Loading DAE Prefs>>Loading MIDI Prefs>>Loading Pro Tools/Session Info...it drops off the screen...gone. I should say this even happens the first time PT boots up, even rite after fresh install. When I delete Prefs just to try it, I'll get one of those AppleScript messages saying Users/John#%%^/blah/blah/com.digidesign.protools*plist or /blah/blah/DAE *Prefs*(1) does not exist.
I'm at a loss for words at what to do here, and I really need some ideas where to start/what it could be. Has anyone seen this occur before? I've used this set-up (virtually brand new ext HD's btw) for the last 6-8 months and it's been perfect, no problems at all. I haven't changed anything here, same OS/disk...I can't believe how this stuff happens but it sure does. I'm a newbie but I've spent a lot of time just reading everything to not have these problems occur, btw please be kind (I'm sure there's something I've said that is t clear enough/etc but I'm trying my best to explain what's happened. I'm just a musician wanting be able to record some great tunes not tuna studio. Unfortunately, if ya want it, ya gotta put in ur dues and learn this part of it too.
Anyways, I'll take any suggestions, hoping this is a simple fix. Wonder if I should create another user account, if my user account info is somewhere it shouldn't be and Protools can't find it. Anyone heard of this happening before?
Like I said, when I manually look for the DAE Prefs, there's nothing there, no plists either. Ive looked and didn't see anything on avid's support saying PT 9.03 has this problem occurring, nor OS Snow Leopard 10.6.6. But I did see something odd after installing the OS on that SSD partition. Along with the spinning ball of doom/bogging down(with virtually any action at random), I
noticed this: the main volume slider at the top-right corner of the screen (by AirPort/etc....well it was greyed out/greying out at random and unresponsive.
I looked this up on the Internet and saw ALOT of the same complaints about it occurring w/ Snow Leopard 10.6._, even Leopard, or others. Apparently it is a known "bug" in Snow Leopard 10.6 that happened a lot. Could be fixed by plugging/unplugging headphones; that will trigger it back responsive until it goes out again. So, it's weird that never occurred before, I've been using 10.6.6 for a good while, never happened before. I still have a brand-new OS 10.6.3 disk as well, should I try that OS instead? I know everyone's for Mountain Lion/PT 11, but I don't have the funds to keep upgrading. Please guys tell me you've seen this before b/c it really sucks bad, I just wanna get back to work with my tunes. Thanks so much for checking this thread and please be nice and not rude like a lot of folks I've seen on here and places like Gearslutz...thanks
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