Spent some quality time with Avid Tech today to get my macpro mid 2012 12 core 3.46Ghz 64GB ram Mac OS 10.13.6 to recognize my dongle. I had installed the sentinel driver and when I upgraded the OS from 10.12.6 to 10.13.6 back around February I could not launch MC 2018.12.7 because it would hang at initializing composer windows. Yesterday I downloaded MC 2018.12.12 to see if it would launch but it wouldn't even begin to launch saying my license wasn't working. The computer wasn't seeing the dongle. Today we went through all the under the hood settings and permissions and finally was able to allow the Germany SNFT Gmbh extension in the security preferences. Then the computer saw the dongle.
When we enabled the SNFT extension the computer restarted twice but came up. Then I could launch MC 2018.12.12 but again it hung at Initializing Composer Windows. I googled and I saw someone had found the nVidia Web drivers were a possible conflict. I went to the nVidia preferences and choose the OSX default driver that does work with my GTX-680 in the tower but doesn't properly recognize the two TitanX GPUs in my cyclone microsystems expansion chassis.
Now the computer won't boot to that startup partition. It stalls about a quarter or third of the way on the progress bar. I can boot in safe mode but how do I undo what we did.
After we allowed the SNFT extension and the double reboot the dongle was recognized but I didn't do a restart at that point. So now I don't know if the enabling of the SNFT is causing the issue or if when I switched to default OSX graphics driver did it or both. Is there a way in safe mode I can set back to nVidia web driver and or can I not allow the SNFT from safe mode? I have an old CCC clone that I will try but now I'm CCC cloning the crippled start up drive.
I hate the thought of a clean install but maybe it's time to bite the bullet. Heck maybe someday I'll actually rebuild my avid settings like I should.
Any suggestions are welcome. It is curious to me that I've never enabled the SNFT before because I didn't know what it was for. I had google but I didn't find anything that suggested it was Avid related. Perhaps my lame google skills are showing.
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net
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