Universal Crossgrade's Been Despatched - any tips before I install?
Probably a Thrashed-to-Death topic - but new things crop up . . .
Any problems or pitfalls with the Crossgrade before I dive in?
Can't wait!
I love installing stuff on a Mac - it was always a nightmare on a PC but those days are long gone since I changed to Mac, thank goodness!
Andy
G5 Quad. 8 GB. 250 & 500 GB Internal HDs. G-Tech G-Raid 1 TB. FCP 5.0.4 (Studio) Mac OS X (10.4.7) Sony HVR-Z1E.
You can't educate pork . . ..
Well, the padded envelope with four DVDs in crumpled white packets arrived yesterday - with a sheet of "instructions" which said something about using the Apple Loops disk I already had . . . But I'd sent all the disks back to Apple!
Anyway, I started the upgrade and the first new disk it asked for was (you guessed it) Apple Loops.
There's no facility to skip, so we went back to the beginning and started the upgrade again.
This time I was ready!
I de-selected Apple Loops in the Custom Setup section, and off we went again.
Guess what? After doing the FCP Installation disk bit, it asked me for Live Type Disk! . . . No LT disk was available - I'd sent it back to Apple.
Obviously, the guys at Apple have a great sense of humour - but unfortunately, I was the butt of this particular joke, it seems.
OK - we started from the beginning again - but this time I was more careful. I decided to check every item on the Custom Install panel.
To my horror, I noticed there were no bytes associated with Final Cut Pro . . .
Well, there's a thing! I sent the FCP disk back with the rest - so now I only have my system backup to rely on if anything happens to Final Cut Pro.
. . . and Compressor too - no upgrade, and now no installation disk!
OK - I know I've read on the forum that people copy installation disks before they send them off - but I don't recall that being recommended on the FCS Crossgrade page when I paid for it.
I assumed Apple would replace the disks I sent. But I only received FCS, Motion, DVD SP and Soundtrack Pro.
I feel cheated and vulnerable now I have no FCP or Compressor disk (not to mention Live Type and Apple Loops) - and they didn't even return the nice little black box the disks came in originally, so I have to find something suitable to store them in together.
I've installed what I can - and done a full software upgrade.
I'll come back when I've used it for a while.
But I'm not amused . . .
Andy
G5 Quad. 8 GB. 250 & 500 GB Internal HDs. G-Tech G-Raid 1 TB. FCP 5.0.4 (Studio) Mac OS X (10.4.7) Sony HVR-Z1E.
You can't educate pork . . ..
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