Installing FCP6 on new MBP

I have just purchased a new MBP duo 2008 and want to install my copy of FCP Studio 2 on it. My previous laptop was a PowerBook G4. I upgraded from FCP5 about a year ago and removed the sticker with the FCP 5 serial #. Now, when I try to install FCP Studio 2 on the new MBP, it is telling me the serial # I am giving is an upgrade # and asking for the original #. Which I cannot find! Please will someone tell me who at Apple I need to contact or what steps I can take to resolve this problem. I only bought the new MBP for editing HD on FCP6. All help much appreciated!

If you registered your copy of FCP 5 you may be in luck. If you phone 1-800-MYAPPLE they will help you with installation issues for free. I think in this case, your success may depend on how nice the person on the other end of the phone is... Good luck!

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Problem Installing SSD in new MBP

Hi, I thought this was gonna be easy: installing a new Samsung 128GB SSD in the optical CD/DVD drive of my new 13" MBP. How wrong I was. I thought the H/W bit would be tough, but the S/W got me instead. What I did:
I left the original HDD (500GB) in the bay & put the Hardwrk's Adapter (& SSD) in the CD/DVD slot - tricky but no real problem.
Rebooted & installed CCC, used DU to format the SSD as a Single GUID partition with MAC OS (Journaled) format - seemed OK.
Used CCC to clone Everything on the old drive to the new one, again said OK. Checked the SSD in DU, repaired permissions, etc.
Reboot, Option key, boot from SSD - here's where things start going wrong. Takes 30s to boot, so cannot be an SSD :-(
In DU the original HDD is still root "/" mount point, so the reboot failed and it reverted back to the SSD.
Tried taking out the HDD & boot only from SSD - Mac fails to properly boot. Reset.
Considered that it might be a CCC problem, or maybe a DU error in formatting, so today:
Booted from MAC OS X ML Recovery USB stick, redid the partition step, but did not reformat the drive.
Reinstall ML fresh, was taking too long (c.90m) so I left it running, will check at lunch time...
Have checked here & on the net, and I do not seem to be doing anything wrong, this usually works for most people - any ideas?
I could try putting the SSD in the HDD bay, but it should work from the 6MB optical bay in a new MBP?
Any thoughts on what went wrong or what I could do to fix this would be most appreciated...

Yes, I thought of that (I was prepared). :-) So I put the new Samsung SSD in my PC to check the firmware version first (as you can't do this on a Mac), which was up-to-date, so nothing to do there. I hope this did not cause a problem with the disc (which I am beginning to suspect - ironic because I chose this disc for Mac compatability), as I set it to GUID partition on the PC ready for speed testing (which I then could not do).
Update: the OS re-install from the USB key failed, did not even look like a working drive this time (single folder red warning icon on it), and didn't come up properly on the Option Reboot list. Based on the above I went into the Recovery Partition from the HDD & did another reinstall from there. This time I changed the partition type to something else (Mac), then back to GUID single & reformatted it, Mac OS (J). It is busy doing the OS install, c.90m again, so will check tonight, but do not hold out much hope...
Only option I can see now is a H/W problem with the CD/DVD drive adapter, so will try one last time by removing this & swapping the SSD for the HDD then reinstall OS direct from USB key.
Should this fail I am all out of options, as the SSD is useless as a 2nd disk or external from the MBP. Only option would be to try to clone the OCZ Vertex III 120GB SSD in the PC onto the Samsung, use this in W7, and swap the OCZ into the Mac? Or just give up & sell it on ebay. :-(
PS: On reading other posts on (Smasung) SSD replacement for MBP HDD, I should note that I did NOT copy the Recovery partiton from the old HDD to the new drive, figuring the old disc would still be in the machine (as a data volume), so I could save a little space on the SSD itself, I was told this would not be a problem, any thoughts?

Re-install iphoto on new MBP

I recently bought a 15" MBP, OS X 10.9.1. I installed everything from my old computer(17") from a time machine back-up on to the new one. It turns out that my iphoto library from the old computer is corrupted. Now I can't open iphoto on the 15" or upgrade it. I would like to just reintall a clean version of iPhoto. How do I do that? I don't think a DVD came with the computer. How can I do the re-install?

What version of iPhoto do you have on the new MBP? What version did you have on the old Mac?
Do you have iDVD on the old Mac? If so you can transfer it to the new Mac as follows:
1 - connect the two computers to gether so you can access the old Mac with the new one, i.e. a LAN or Target Disk Mode, Transferring files between two computers using FireWire.
2 - copy the iDVD application from the Applications folder of the old Mac to the Applications folder on the new Mac.
3 - locate and copy the iDVD folder from the Home/Library/Application Support folder on the old Mac to the same folder on the new Mac.
NOTE: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Home/Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and press the Return key - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
For Mavericks, 10.9, go to your Home folder and use the View ➙ Show View Options menu to bring the this window:
NOTE: the iDVD folder may be in the HD/Library/Applications Support folder instead of the one mentioned previously. If that's the case move it to the same location on the new Mac.
3 - launch iDVD, go to iDVD's Advnaced preference pane and point iDVD to the Themes folder that is inside the iDVD folder.
The following is a note on good practice with iDVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
OT

Installing PShop on New MBP

Just received my new MacBook Pro yesterday. I need to install PhotoShop, etc. Here's the problem: My initial purchase of P-Shop is 5.5 (OS 9). Since then I have continually upgraded thru CS2. I cannot install from the upgrades and the MBP will not accept older OS 9 versions of the software for original registration. Same situation with MS Office.
Now what do I do? Is there a simple solution? Do I need to purchase a full working version of all the latest upgrades? (Yikes, what a waste of $$$)
Any help is appreciated.
Macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Adobe has become a pain in the ***, in the latest years.
I bought a OEM photoshop, and after many difficulties to get it running through internet, the vendor gave up and gave me a cracked version of it.
This one is working, at last.
the same happened with premiere, after buying a full version, and using it for some time, I had to reinstall it and then refused to accept the SN. I had to use a cracked SN in ordrer to make a licensed copy work ( since adobe didn't help a bit).
It seems unbelievable but I buy the licenses but use cracked copies of adobe software.
Bye

XP Pro install fails on new MBP - Disk Error every time

I have a new 13" MBP. I set up a 50GB partition with Bootcamp but I get a 'Disk Error. Press any key to restart' message after I try to install XP.
I've just tried a second XP Pro install disk, both are legit and brand new. I wiped the partition with Disk Utility after the first failed install. Same error occurs.
Any ideas ?

Finally got mine going. Look at this post from Robert Loney on 6/26/09 at 7:49am.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1981467&tstart=75
I discovered it was slightly incorrect, but easy to overcome. Where he said that the prompt that comes up is C:\WINDOWS\, mine came up as C:\>, which is what it is supposed to be.
I was able to reformat my partition to NTFS and then do the full install.
Hope this helps.

Does Snow Leopard Come Installed on the new MBP's?

I read on here that Leopard and Snow Leopard need to be installed once the computer arrives. Is this true? Meaning that the OS X Snow Leopard is not already installed on the notebook when it arrives! That can't be.
Also, if I purchase One-on-One at thid Apple Store, it mentions (or I heard fro someone that I can use the 1st class or whatever it is called to get help with installing programs, migrating from the old to the new, learning a little about the SL OS, etc.? I hope this is good for people who purchase the notebook from the online Apple Store too. It has to be, right? Yeah!
Finally, any recommendations on heavy-duty external 500 GB max most likely with the option of USB 2.0 or FW 400 or 800. I would rarely be using the FW 800 until after I graduate.
Thanks!

One2Two wrote:
I read on here that Leopard and Snow Leopard need to be installed once the computer arrives. Is this true? Meaning that the OS X Snow Leopard is not already installed on the notebook when it arrives! That can't be.
It can be but may not be true. Apple frequently ships existing inventory made before the latest OS is released (& thus does not have it installed or on the system discs) with what is known as a "drop in" disc, so named because it is dropped in the product box & the box resealed before being sent to retail outlets or to customers for direct sales. Once this inventory is gone, all new units will be shipped with the new OS installed (& on the system discs), until then you may get the new OS in one or the other form.
Also, if I purchase One-on-One at thid Apple Store, it mentions (or I heard fro someone that I can use the 1st class or whatever it is called to get help with installing programs, migrating from the old to the new, learning a little about the SL OS, etc.? I hope this is good for people who purchase the notebook from the online Apple Store too. It has to be, right?
*One to One* is a separate purchase & includes personalized help for everything you mentioned. Read about it at http://www.apple.com/retail/onetoone/.
Finally, any recommendations on heavy-duty external 500 GB max most likely with the option of USB 2.0 or FW 400 or 800. I would rarely be using the FW 800 until after I graduate.
What is best for you depends on what you mean by "heavy-duty" & how long it will be before you graduate. Do not expect current hard drives to last more than five years (although many will), so figure this into how long you would be using it after purchase. With the current trends in capacity vs. cost, you will probably be able to buy in two years a drive several times as large as a 500 GB one for cheaper than whatever you pay now, so figure that in as well.
In general, Seagate has a good reputation for longevity (mostly perhaps because of its 5 year warranty on some models). The drive products from Other World Computing are also highly regarded. Personally, I like Buffalo drives, mostly for their low cost, & because I plan on replacing/adding new external drives every 1 ½ to 2 years.
If by heavy-duty you mean mechanically rugged, check out the portable drives marketed for portable use & that characteristic -- some have shock resistant cases & contain hard drives with higher g-force shock ratings than is usual.

New MBP: Vista crashes during install w/Boot Camp-any suggestions?

Trying to install vista on new MBP. Using Boot Camp, everything seems to work until the very end, and Then Vista says it couldn't finish due to a problem with a device(I'll have to check the exact error at home tonight....)and that I will need to restart and re-install. Then it gets stuck restarting and going to the same message over and over. so frustrating....
This is with a fresh copy of OSX 10.5.5 on a new MBP 2.4 with 4G of ram, right out of the box. New copy of Vista SP1, and following the bootcamp instructions to the letter. I installed all Apple software updates before launching bootcamp. Other than the Apple updates, am I missing something?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

You would do better posting in the BootCamp forum here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1244

An error occurred while attempting to change modules while starting up LR 4.1. New install on a new

An error occurred while attempting to change modules while starting up LR 4.1. New install on a new MBP first time trying to start up

Just a guess, but since everything is new, perhaps you have some sort of permissions problem.
Make sure your user has write access to all the locations mentioned in this link:
http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/preference-file-locations-lightroom-4.html
Hal

Swapping HDs with new MBP: What to do with OS X?

I purchased a new MacBook Pro 2.3GHz i7 quad-core from the Apple Store Thursday morning with the 750GB 5400RPM hard drive. I now have time to set up the new machine but I am hung up on how best to deal with swapping hard drives. My current MBP has a 640GB 7200RPM hard drive with OS X 10.6.6 installed. I am a photographer so the faster drive makes a big difference with large photo catalogs. I had planned on swapping out the new 750GB 5400RPM drive for my current 640GB 7200RPM hard drive and then get back to work, however, I am concerned that the OS X installed on the 640GB 7200RPM hard drive will not be compatible with the new machine's processor. Should I do the swap and then boot up from the new laptop's OS X install disks and do a OS X only install? I have never done a OS X only install/update, will any other data be altered, any suggestions on how to proceed? Should I just swap, start up and then run Apple Software Update?
I would prefer avoiding an erase and install, cloning, migration, Adobe registration issues, etc and going the HD swap and OS X disk update route if it can work.
Thanks for your input,
Chad

I found this discussing looking to do the same thing-ish.
I just bought a new i7 quad MacBook Pro (delivered today). Less than 4 weeks ago, I had picked up an i5 MacBook Pro. Since I'm still in my return window, I decided the buy the new one, do the hard drive shuffle and return the less new one.
I have a 500gb 7200rpm drive AND a 120gb SSD in the drive bay. I really never considered just swapping the drives into the new machine, but I thought I'd search and see if anyone had any success.
I had a couple thoughts on how I'm going to do the shuffle:
1) Superduper clone the SSD back onto my 500gb. I the system as it is now started life on the 500gb. Superduper (registered) will do a backup only updating the changed files which shouldn't be too bad. I have my user directories (separate from the startup disk) on the 500gb so SD won't have to copy any of those files. Then I figured I could use the migration software to copy all my 'stuff' (minus user directory) back onto the newly reformatted SSD with 10.6 installed onto the new MBP.
2) I was noticing that migration assistant can work from Time Machine, so I'll probably do that since my SSD time machine backup doesn't contain my gigantic user directory. I'll still do a SuperDuper backup just to be safe.
I'm tempted to throw my hard drive into an external usb to see if it boots just for the heck of it.

Logic studio 8 doesn't work on new mbp, 500€ trashed...

hello, 6 years ago i bought a mbp in order to install logic pro. with the whole value of 3500€, but few months ago my video card has gone, mbp can not be repaired. so i bought my new mbp of 3000€. Unfortunately Logic 8 cannot be installed on my new mbp. how should i do? Marco

You would also want to read this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4636628?start=15&tstart=0
Cheers!

Purchased new MBP... 40GB Used?!?

I just purchased a new Mac Book Pro 15" with a 120GB Disk. It turns out that just over 40GB is used by the default installation! What's using up so much space?!? After moving over the files from my old iBook, I have less than 50GB free... =(

I understand that doing a custom install will help with the space that was eaten up by all the demos... I was just noticing that the "base" install on a new MBP seems to be a bit... Excessive... =)
I just did a bit of math and it turns out that I was a little off... My user directory is using about 23GB of space with the copied "stuff" from my old iBook. That leaves about 21 GB used by the rest of the system... Even if I remove the installed applications (which total about 3 GB) that still leaves 19 GB in use everywhere else... I'm about to do a full re-install just to reclaim some of that much needed space, but I'd love to just "know" what was eating it all up. =(
I'll do some more poking around to figure out what's going on...
Ricky

New MBP and installed wrong administrator

Please help,
Yesterday I bought me a new MBP (lion) and wanted to transfer all the information from my previous MBP (died on me) from TimeCapsule.
First I could not get access with my administrator password which I use for years, so I reset the password. After that I let me access and did the transfer.
Problem is that there are 2 MBP's backed up on the TimeCapsule. Mine and my partner's.
When the transfer was finished, I freaked out as all the information from my partner's MBP was transfered to my new MBP instead of my data. Whatever I try, I cannot seem to be able to get my information. How can I erase my partners information and start all over again (clean start as if I just got it from the store ) and try to get my information from the TimeCapsule instead of my partners. I do not have a disc as it did not come with my new MBP (was already installed).
Is there a posibility to see what you are actually transferring from the TimeCapsule? It shows applications, documents which you can tick but not What information.
Bit annoyed as I am afraid that all my information is lost. I hope it is still in the TimeCapsule. I once did it before and everything went well in the past. Now I'm stuck with info from the wrong laptop.
Thanks in advance!

You'll need to boot to the recovery HD, included on the internal HD, by holding down Command+r key combo or the Option key.
Once booted to the recovery HD you can wipe the Macintosh HD section of the internal drive and then reinstall Lion from the Apple online server. You'll need to have the computer connected to the internat to do the re-install.

Can't install WIn 7 on my new MBP

I just bought new 15" i7 MBP, and tried to install Windows 7 Ultimate (OEM). I use Boot Camp Assistance to create a partition for 32GB, and start Windows Setup. After I pressed Install Now button, I found an error message that the system cannot find CD/DVD media driver. How can I solve it?

I'm probably asking a very obvious question, but are you running Boot Camp Assistant directly from the hard disk or one of the DVD's that came with your MBP?
If you're running BCA from the hard disk, I'll speculate that maybe your new MBP i7 has a new/different model of DVD drive than the one(s) Boot Camp Assistant is expecting to find.
Go to About This Mac, More Info, Disc Burning, and view the description of your DVD drive.
If the DVD drive is a new model and isn't supported by Boot Camp Assistant yet, you might have to wait for a 10.6.4 update to fix it.

I've installed 10.8.1 on new MBP w/ retina display and battery starts at 8 hr charge and drops to 7 hr in just 30 minutes of run time. This is not what I expected from Apple!!

I've installed 10.8.1 on new MBP w/ retina display. Fully charged battery shows 8 hrs at 100% then drops to 7 hrs after only 1/2 hr of use. I was hoping that 10.8.1 would have fixed a obviously well publicized defect.

jemham wrote:
I've installed 10.8.1 on new MBP w/ retina display. Fully charged battery shows 8 hrs at 100% then drops to 7 hrs after only 1/2 hr of use. I was hoping that 10.8.1 would have fixed a obviously well publicized defect.
Sorry pal, not this time. The release notes for 10.8.1 do not discuss anything about battery issues. I do know Apple is aware of the problem thought and are working on a fix, hopefully in the forthcoming 10.8.2.

Is it possible to install Windows 8 on a new MBP through Bootcamp?

My new MBP has no CD slot obviously - anyone able to install from the cloud? USB?

You can install Windows 8 on a new MacBook Pro without any problem. See > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5634?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
On Macs without a SuperDrive, you have two options to install Windows:
1. Buy Windows on a DVD and an external optical drive, connect it and use it to install Windows.
2. Purchase Windows from the Microsoft Store or any other shop that offers it as a download, burn the file downloaded into a USB drive with Boot Camp Assistant, and install Windows with the USB drive.
To install Windows 8, you need a full version, so the only possibility is to get it on a DVD and use an external optical drive to install it. If you want all the steps to install Windows 8 through Boot Camp, follow these steps > http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.8.pdf

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