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#DOES TECHTOOL PRO FIX SPORLIGHT PROBLEMS INSTALL#
#DOES TECHTOOL PRO FIX SPORLIGHT PROBLEMS UPGRADE#

I do regular speed tests using a benchmarking utility called Xbench and I was initially dismayed to see that disk speeds had gone down after the upgrade. A couple of programs had to be updated, but nearly everything worked fine, including a lot of old applications that I was worried about. I used it for three days before I decided it was okay.

#DOES TECHTOOL PRO FIX SPORLIGHT PROBLEMS UPGRADE#

I’m told that this is critical because if you were updating Tiger regularly some of your applications will actually get rolled back during the upgrade to Leopard.

#DOES TECHTOOL PRO FIX SPORLIGHT PROBLEMS INSTALL#

Download and install all Apple upgrades via System Preferences/Software Update.

I’m told this works well, but I decided to go the easy way first. There’s a school of opinion that says you should do an erase and install, which wipes your drive and starts over, and then use Migration Assistant to bring back all your files and applications from the SuperDuper clone.

After doing all this system maintenance, I upgraded to Leopard using the standard Apple procedure (shove in the DVD and do what it says).

Confirm that your copy is good by booting from it. You’ll need a drive that’s at least as big as your system disk to do this. Then and only then did I clone the internal drive using SuperDuper. And finally, I ran Cocktail to rotate the system caches and repair permissions. Then I did a complete system check (including a surface scan of the drive) with TechTool Pro. I started by running Disk Utility and checking my internal drive. I had to run the uninstaller seven times. There’s a separate uninstaller for every application you’ve got.

They’re here: Macintosh HD/Applications/Avid Uninstallers. You do this using the Avid uninstaller aps. Uninstall Media Composer (in my case, v 2.8) and all other Avid applications.If you’re using the newer Avid breakout boxes, namely the Mojo DX or Nitris DX, you’ll be fine in Leopard. If you want to use your existing Adrenaline or Mojo with MC version 3, you need to stick with Tiger and use 3.01. Avid says this has to be fixed by Apple, and no fix has appeared. Why would you want to run Tiger? Because there is a known bug in the Leopard Firewire code that makes using Adrenaline and Mojo boxes unreliable, especially for digitizing. The upgrade wasn’t trivial, partly because I moved from Tiger to Leopard at the same time, and I’ll attempt to explain for the uninitiated.įirst, there are now two current versions of MC. I have Media Composer version 3.0 running on my Mac laptop.