{"id":27009,"date":"2003-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=27009"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"digidesign-protools-osx-help-info","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/digidesign-protools-osx-help-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Digidesign ProTools OSX Help Info."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> -Verify that you have the Min\/Suggested amount of Ram loaded in your system<br \/> (384 Min, 512 Suggested)<\/p>\n<p> -Make sure you are using a supported version of the OS<\/p>\n<p> -Make sure all drives are formatted Mac OS Extended (HFS+) with OS X&#8217;s Disk Utility. Pro Tools can not use UFS or HFS volumes. If the drive was originally formatted in OS 9 or with any other application, backup the drive and reinitialize it with Disk Utility.<\/p>\n<p> -If you are running a supported ATTO card make sure you install the ATTO Configuration Tool, this is a different application from Express. It can be found on the Pro Tools 6.x CD installer. This application installs necessary extensions for all supported ATTO cards.<\/p>\n<p> -Confirm your System Preferences are set correctly:<\/p>\n<p> Pro Tools requires a minimum monitor resolution of atleast 1024 X 768. This should be set prior to installing Pro Tools software.<\/p>\n<p> In System Preferences > Classic > Start\/Stop tab, Uncheck Start Classic when you log in.<\/p>\n<p> In System Preferences > Energy Saver<br \/> Uncheck anything that allows the computer to go to sleep\/shutdown\/ power save etc.<\/p>\n<p> In System Preferences > Date &#038; Time<br \/> Verify that the date is correctly and that you are not using 24 hour time.<\/p>\n<p> -Disable any Virus Protection Software and empty the Trash<\/p>\n<p> Troubleshooting tips:<\/p>\n<p> -Trash Pro Tools preferences Go to Users > &#8220;your user name&#8221; > Library > Preferences and trash DAE Prefs, DigiSetup.OSX and Pro Tools LE 6.0 prefs. Then restart the CPU.<\/p>\n<p> -Quit Pro Tools and launch Apple&#8217;s &#8220;Disk Utility&#8221; application. Select your boot volume, go to First Aid and select &#8220;Repair Disk Permisions.&#8221; Apple recommends doing this any time an OS update or reinstall is done with OS X.<\/p>\n<p> -Try creating a new user with admin priviledges and install Pro Tools to the new user account:<\/p>\n<p> Uninstall Pro Tools by running the Pro Tools installer on your installation CD and Choose Custom > Uninstall.<\/p>\n<p> Then go to System Preferences and create a new user (make sure to check the box to make the new user an Administrator).<\/p>\n<p> From the Apple menu, log out and log back in under the new admin user you just created.<\/p>\n<p> Reinstall Pro Tools to the new User Account and launch Pro Tools.<\/p>\n<p> -Try removing any other USB devices that are plugged in. Then restart the CPU. (Mbox only)<\/p>\n<p> -Check to see if you have another copy or another installation of OSX on your computer (in one case trashing another copy of OS X cleared up the &#8216;Unexpectedly Quit&#8217; error messages).<\/p>\n<p> -In System Preferences > Accounts, go to the Startup items page make sure that no &#8220;offending&#8221; software is being loaded when the system powers up (in one case Palm software was causing a problem).<\/p>\n<p> -For all Mounted Hard drives trash Volume.ddb files: Located In MacHD (and other mounted HD&#8217;s) > Digidesign Databases > trash volume.ddb<\/p>\n<p> -Trash Databases Folder (If present):<br \/> Located in MacHD > Library > Application Support > Digidesign > trash databases folder<\/p>\n<p> Note: To enable other users to help you, please include all of your system details when posting an issue to the DUC; Pro Tools hardware, Pro Tools software version, CPU, OS version, amount of RAM install, type of hard drives used, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[34125],"storecat":[],"itemids":[],"manufacturers":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the Digidesign ProTools OSX Help Info.  page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world&#039;s leading music technology and instrument retailer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/digidesign-protools-osx-help-info\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Digidesign ProTools OSX Help Info.  - SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"-Verify that you have the Min\/Suggested amount of Ram loaded in your system (384 Min, 512 Suggested) -Make sure you are using a supported version of the OS -Make sure all drives are formatted Mac OS Extended (HFS+) with OS X&#8217;s Disk Utility. 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