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Apr 06, 04
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stupid fucking mac computers
for fuck sakes!
i bought a mac and it was great but now i cant evan install the fucking program wich i bought the fucking computer for! this sucks.\\ is anybody out there mac savvy at all? can you help 
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Apr 06, 04
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Boo on MacIntosh. :yucky:
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Apr 06, 04
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YES YES!
well i figured out whats wrong. my hardrive fromat is incompatible with the version of pt that i installed. ok...so how do i re-format my drive? toatally clueless when it comes to macs. ppcock do you think you could help me out with this?
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Apr 06, 04
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the current drive is formmated as Unix File System or UFS format. Protools requires the drive to be formatted as somthing callled mac os extended or HFS+.
Now ive been on the digi forums and various mac forums and apparently i can re-formatt the disk in my disk utility, but im new with macs and have no clue as to what to do. any mac people here who can help?
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Apr 06, 04
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If you take any artistic proffesion seriously , be it film, graphic design, or music it's simply ridiculous to consider anything but a mac.
We're talking 64-bit G5 processors running a Unix OS. That means it's stable as can be, and never crashes or freezes while you work. I've owned one for more then 2 years now without a single crash, freeze, or missing "DLL" ( they don't use dll files btw ). All the best professional software works with mac or is mac only ( including the adobe line, the final cut pro line, the soundtrack/garageband line ). There's no viruses for macs, I never worry about opening mysterious .exe attachments in emails. They're super fast, long lasting, and you can fix virtually any problem you have yourself. Unless you're buying a computer to play video games, which I'll admit PC's would be your better choice because most game titles are for PC, otherwise there's honestly no alternative.
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Apr 06, 04
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I'm not a Mac person, but I'm a Unix person.
I'm assuming you can use a command-line, no? # man fdisk Play around there. Should have all you need. If you wanna do something semi-graphical # cfdisk (HFS supported there? Mac g33ks?) You just doing some file partition somewhere that way? If so, this is hella easy. Otherwise, if you're overhauling your root partition, then you're gonna need to re-install the OS and that requires more work. Once you format your partition, if it's not the root part and you just need to mount it: # mount -t hfs <devicefile> /wherever/the/fuck/you/wanna/mount/it It's _really_ simple.
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Apr 06, 04
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^ just to help out ebbomega , if you want to use those unix commands on your mac, open up the "terminal" client in the utilities folder in Applications on MacHD.
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Apr 06, 04
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^not help you ebbomega, I meant "to help" on top of your valuable information.
You seem to know more about unix then the average jedi.
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Apr 07, 04
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Reformat Hard Drive while: 1) Create a big main UFS partition and a smaller HFS+ for whatever program that needs it. 2) Format the whole thing as HFS+. When reformatting you should consult the manual that came with OS X. You will have to boot off the OS X CD, use disk utility to wipe it clean and format as HFS+, then reinstall OS X.
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Apr 07, 04
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This is why I'm not super crazy for protools.
It's so damn picky. I mean, the program itself is great, but setting it up can be such a big stupid hassle that it seems kind of less worth it Digidesign comes across as the arrogant animal trainer guy on set who freaks on you if you so much as bat an eyelash at one of his animals, cos it disrupts them. Protools doesn't support dual processors, or raid arrays (on PCs at least)... that seems kinda wrong.
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Apr 07, 04
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problem solved!
i had to re-install the whole works and now everything runs smoothly. big thanks to george(krusha) for helpin me out. Im amazed at how simple and easy it was to re-intall every thing and re-intall reason and re fills and pt and such. so fuckin easy to do with the mac.....that is now that i know the difference in ufs and hfs+ file formats.
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Apr 08, 04
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after you master the personal PC you feel like you can achieve anything..
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Apr 09, 04
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HA the apple cult!
no doubt rytalin, i bought a copy of mac addict the other day and the way they write about these computers is very very cult like. its just a really, really slick OS. Plus PT and reason run like a freakin dream on it. all is not lost though as i still use my pc for the net, e-mail , and all the work i do with sonic foundrys stuff. the mac is for music only
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