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Snow Leopard Testing Report Thread

Russ Blaise said:
Compressor 3.5 (FCS) quits unexpectedly at startup under Snow Leopard... After a clean install of Snow Leopard and installing the new Final Cut Studio, all apps work fine except Compressor 3.5. It just won't boot. I just get a "Compressor quit unexpectedly" message.

Anybody else seeing this and is there a fix?
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Russ, I tried it quick but it's working okay. Maybe run disk utility and fix the privils?
 
This not a bug just an observation. I am hearing a fan noise now with SL
that I did not hear before at all, maybe its the ATI 3870 being pushed a little harder. Everything is fine, its just that the box was so quiet before.
 
Paul,

There were some discussion how QTX utilized GPU and most likely SL uses GPU power more. There are four areas of fan that gets controlled depending on the state of the process, so Apple's default might have changed.
 
Stephen Webb said:
Why Leopard first? I installed a new drive in my MBP and then did a clean install of Snow Leopard. Worked fine.
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The 29 euro upgrade of snow leopard doesn't include the erase and install option, so if you want a clean install on your start up disk the easiest way is to make a clean install of Leopard and then install SL.
Kaku Ito said:
Luca, I'd say that's pretty much the case, if you want to get the best frame rate with most resolution during the playback, 1280 x 720 output is probably the highest. At 1920 x 1080 output, setting the playback proxy as Half Resolution provides you pretty smooth playback and full resolution when you stop, so I usually do this when I work on Color.
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Yes, I see but I thought the proxy option works only for dpx and R3D files, not for prores 4.
Paul Hazlett said:
This not a bug just an observation. I am hearing a fan noise now with SL
that I did not hear before at all, maybe its the ATI 3870 being pushed a little harder. Everything is fine, its just that the box was so quiet before.
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It's strange, when I did the test with SL I was very surprised how quite was the mac pro during the render.
 
Luca Immesi said:
The 29 euro upgrade of snow leopard doesn't include the erase and install option, so if you want a clean install on your start up disk the easiest way is to make a clean install of Leopard and then install SL.
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No, the easiest way is to do a clean install of Snow Leopard. You don't need Leopard at all.
 
Stephen Webb said:
No, the easiest way is to do a clean install of Snow Leopard. You don't need Leopard at all.
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On my cd there was no way to do a clean install. Please explain how you did it.
 
I usually either:

A) insert a new disk into the system and set that as the target for the install

B) for laptops, use dd to copy the internal drive to a external (while not using the computer), verify the external, then erase the internal and install to it.

Both methods work on my copy of 10.6
 
R3D Data said:
I usually either:

A) insert a new disk into the system and set that as the target for the install

B) for laptops, use dd to copy the internal drive to a external (while not using the computer), verify the external, then erase the internal and install to it.

Both methods work on my copy of 10.6
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Hi Conrad, it was a pleasure meeting you at community day at Reducation.
With my copy I can't choose erase and install option, that's for sure, I know you can boot the system from another drive but it takes time to do it, this is the reason because I'm saying to make a clean install from leopard is not that bad and it's the easiest method.
 
All right guys, if you click on the install of SL, the install shows up and you have the possibility to select utilities. Sl restarts the computer and after you can choose disk utility to erase the start up disk. Is it correct? The next time please don't say only no, please explain why and how. This make the posts constructive.
 
Luca Immesi said:
All right guys, if you click on the install of SL, the install shows up and you have the possibility to select utilities. Sl restarts the computer and after you can choose disk utility to erase the start up disk. Is it correct? The next time please don't say only no, please explain why and how. This make the posts constructive.
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No.
 
Sorry - I had to. :)

If you DONT click on the utilities, click on Continue, accept the agreement, then it will show you the target disk. Select "show all disks" and it will show you all disks attached to the system. Make sure your target disk is formatted with GUID partitions.

It was nice to meet you too at REDucation Luca.
 
R3D Data said:
Sorry - I had to. :)
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Whatever :smile5:
But if you do it in your way you can make only an "archive and install" not an "erase and install". If you want erase your start up disk and install SL you have to use the disk utility of the SL disk.
 
Hi Luca,

I may be misunderstanding what you did, but as you were talking of a "clean install" I understood it to mean that you were starting afresh.

I installed Snow Leopard on a completely new system drive. The drive had never been used before, it didn't have Leopard on it or any other operating system. The point is Snow Leopard does not check to see if you have Leopard or not, so I'm confused as to why you needed to do an install of Leopard first before upgrading.

It seems to me that you wanted to completely erase your system drive then install Snow Leopard. Doing an "Erase and install" with Leopard then an upgrade seems a rather long way round!
 
You can do a clean install, BUT you need to reboot the computer off of the install DVD. If you insert the SL DVD while booted in Leopard and just double click the installer you can't. Put the DVD in, reboot the computer, hold down the 'option' key as soon as you hear the startup chime. After a few seconds you'll get a menu to choose which disc to boot off of. Pick the SL install DVD and then when it boots off you will be able to access disc utilities (if you want to format) etc. Hope this helps. I just finished a clean install off of an upgrade disc.
 
Sorry, I misread your question. I didn't do an "Archive and Install", but rather a format and install. I'm not sure on the "Archive and Install".
 
torster said:
Folks,

Just as an aside, installing and running Snow Leopard on SSD works great.

No beachballs!

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Good news.
Now just to make it clear once for all, from the installing instructions of snow leopard:
Erasing and reinstalling Mac OS X
If you need to erase and reinstall Mac OS X, in the first pane of the Installer, click Utilities, and then click Restart.
After you choose your language, choose Utilities > Disk Utility. Select your disk from the list on the left, and then click Erase tab.
 
So I booted to the 64bit kernal and looked at the applications that were 64bit
and none of FCS 3 is 64bit according to the profiler...what gives?
 
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