Gosh knows! After sitting up all night playing with the stupid thing, I
finally at about 6 this morning got it working. We'll just say my theory
was correct. I spoke to a local friend of mine today who uses PT MP all the
time, and he confirmed it.
9.0 anything will not run on Lion. Period. It will install, yes, but not
entirely. Some components won't properly get installed, some of which are
core components.
In order to get 9.0.5 installed inLion two conditions have to be met:
1. You have had a previous installation of Snowleopard or earlier, and have
installed 9.0 at that time before upgrading to Lion. Once upgraded, then
you run the 9.0.5 updater.
2. You use the full installer of 9.0.5 and install clean from under Lion.
In my case, I wasn't able to do either.
This computer did not have Snow Leopard on it upon installing 9.0. This
means some of the drivers and other core parts of the software did not get
installed correctly, if, at all.
This explains why it couldn't see my ILok correctly. Part of the components
needed to do that either were not there, or were corrupted/incompatible.
I couldn't download the 9.0.5 full install, as people like myself do not get
free access to that, being we bought a boxed copy. Those free downloads
only apply if:
1. You purchase an upgrade
2. You initially buy the downloadable verwsion which comes with no physical
media that it shipped to you. If you have a boxed copy and try logging in,
and going to downloads, all that you'll see is that it says no downloads
found at this time.
So, what I wound up doing was to back up my entire system, reinstall
Snowleopard, then I tried installing ProTools and such. Once I was up on
SL, the install with through like a charm the very first time around, and
once I connected my ILok, then ran PT, it opened and almost immediately, I
was at the new project quick start dialog box, and ready to go.
I closed this, then ran the 9.0.5 updater. Again, it went through
absolutely perfectly. I re-opened PT, went to the about screen, and sure
enough: 9.0.5! I'm updated!
So yeah, here's to anyone thinking a getting anything Protools 9.0 or
earlier. Don't! Unless you have intentions of installing originally from
10.6 or earlier of OSX.
This really! makes me mad! Christopher should have listened to me when I
questioned him about this. I told him up front I didn't think it was going
to be Lion ready out of the box, but no matter what I said, he kept
insisting that yes it is, yes it is. Well, FYI: with all do respect, then
why didn't it work, yet when I downgraded it went so smoothely, I had it
done first go around in under an hour.
Please keep checking your mail, as I'm gonna be posting another question I'm
having which does seem a bit strange that is going on. It might, and
probably is, normal behavior, but it just seems a little weird to me.
Chris.
