Once again, not sure why you had issues. But i purchased 2 macs bot came pre installed with lion and it worked here. Did u try the 9.06 update as well? On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:15 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
