Logic 8 stability on Snow Leopard versus Leopard

I've been running Logic 8 for a couple of years with Leopard and it crashes but not regularly enough to be a pain in the butt too much. However after trying it with Snow Leopard I've been getting multiple crashes (i.e. 3 or 4 in a one hour period).
Is this a common occurence, is Logic 9 any better stability wise?
Thanks

I've been with Logic since v7. I ran Logic 8 untill Logic 9 came out. The combination of Logic 9.1 and Snow Leopard has blown me away. When L9 and SL were both new (in about august & sept 09) there were crashes but with the latest versions of both I don't really have crashes anymore at all. It's been the best DAW performance I've ever seen. Very impressive. I recommend updating to L9 and to verify you have the latest version of OSX.
More or less the same here. I've been with Logic a little longer (the first version from when it stopped being Notator), so I'm not sure I can say it's the most stable I've ever seen mostly cos it's hard to remember that far back... But it is for sure up there with the most stable setups I remember in a while, like Logic Platinum 4.7 (on os9) or possibly a bit better. I've done some fairly intense work on it so far (including working to video) and have only as yet had a couple of weird things happen but no crashes. Only crash yet was opening an older project that was started in Logic 8 which had video in it, but that was easy to sort out. Overall, very much in agreement that the latest updates of everything system-wise and Logic-wise are working out pretty well.
One note - I haven't gotten all that much into flex time yet but I did a sense that there was a bit of flakiness in there somewhere when I gave it a bit of a workout re-quantizing an entire sequence of tap dancing to a fixed tempo (don't ask). So perhaps there's some lacking stability to be found in areas I haven't used much yet. But then, takes folders were downright bug-ridden in Logic 8, and are much better now in 9, so it seems like fixes are getting done in a more or less timely manner.

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Every time i click on "new" and try and start a new project - logic freezes and i get the rotating circle sign and Logic stops responding - eventually i need to force quit and start again.
Existing projects seem to be functioning fine, although slightly slower than before.
Does anyone have any fixes for this?! Not being able to start a new project is quite a big problem!
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The mistake was trusting only TimeMachine as your backup/restore.
If you had your users files also backed up to a external storage drive, or used a bootable clone (since they can be directly accessed) then you could have recovered just your files.
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How to revert OS X back from Mavericks
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Existing projects seem to be functioning fine, although slightly slower than before.
Does anyone have any fixes for this?! Not being able to start a new project is quite a big problem!
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???

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