Tony I suggest you take a peek at the myriad of posts I've had the last week or so since I began taking our SNDX 4.0.5 to 5.5.3 and also 6.0.1.1. Bottom line I found so far is Carbon Copy Cloner is about to become your best friend. I'm not talking one copy of your hard drive but several for protections sake. I got a 4 TB drive partitioned to 8 volumes and I've got each one full after 4 days of playing around. So get yourself a big ass drive to put multiple copies of the migration onto. First clone you startup drive as is. Now depending on it's state of clutter you might want to make another backup copy and go through and empty the attic, mine had 73 gigs of old projects, and find all the QT's you've been saving to the desktop etc.... that you don't need and get rid of them on the 2nd backup. On my system I was going from 10.5.6 to 10.6.3 from my DVD. The gotcha I had was when I went from 10.6.3 to 10.6.8 I got the Death screen and the drive was munched. After a lot of attempts I found the SNDX 4.0.5 was causing the death screen. It seemed to work on 10.6.3 but blew up the startup drive when upgraded to 10.6.8. I found if I uninstalled 4.0.5 before upgrading from 10.6.3 to 10.6.8 I could then install 5.5.3 or 6.0.1.1. Depending on your upgrade budget you might want to set up a 5.5.3 partition and a 6.0.1.1. Our sapphire V2 won't work on the 64 bit 6.x versions. Also I have found that on my home system when I went from 10.5.x to 10.6.x Sapphire 2 no longer will install and I had to upgrade to Sapphire 3. I haven't checked how my cloned upgrade handled sapphire but I'm thinking at work I got lucky and at least the 5.5.3 version will still work with Sapphire 2. I've been mostly concentrating on the 6.0.1.1. Make sure to set aside a chunk of time and several chunks of drives to make backups along the way. Clean installs are usually recommended but in my case that wasn't viable due to an Adobe suite licensee issue with reloading from scracth, e.g. somebody "lost" the install disks and no one has the activation code. ;-(
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Tony Capelli <tcapelli@...> wrote:
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> The Avid 5's and 5.5's here are on Snow Leopard, except for one 5.5 on a
> laptop that is running 10.7.2. The Avid 4.0.5, the machine they are
> upgrading, is 10.6.3. I told them they need to go to 10.7 and they should
> get the thumb drive copy of it so they have a hard copy of that OS.
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Lou Wirth <loutv@...> wrote:
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> > Tony
> > What OS are you currently running on your Avids?
> >
> > Lou
> >
> >
> > On May 10, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Tony Capelli wrote:
> >
> > > So where I work wants to take advantage of the Symphony upgrade and I was
> > > wondering if anyone around has a fairly similar setup as we do and if
> > they
> > > have come across any issues. Their current online room has a Sony
> > HDW-1800
> > > deck and a Mojo DX with Avid 4.0.5 running on a Mac G5 2x 2.93 GHz Quad
> > > Core Intel Xeon with 16GB 1066 MHz DDr3 memory.
> > >
> > > They usually online with the 4.0, some basic color correction and audio
> > > mixing, then mixdown and layoff to the Sony but they are looking for a
> > > little more control on the color correction end. I spoke with another
> > > editor in the area who is also a part time engineer with another
> > production
> > > company and he looked over our system and didn't see a reason why we
> > would
> > > have any issues getting off to tape and out the door but I just wanted to
> > > see if anyone out there has come across problems.
> > >
> > > I know the only thing really for me to do is just install it and test
> > away
> > > and we are buying through a third party so we will have some support if
> > > there is an issue but I'd love to come into this with a heads up seeing
> > how
> > > they are in the middle of a push to get stuff out the door.
> > >
> > > Any feedback would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Tony
> > >
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