Warning, long mail and long rant ahead, so if you don't have time to read a 10 page on and on tirade, then stop reading now. I dont' wanna waist your time. LOL!
This is gonna sound really really stupid, and if you're like me, you're gonna be like G? D it, why didn't you think of this, Chris! This is so obvious, it's not! obvious. Basically, what I wound up having to do was, I had to literally go to /Applications/Avid Uninstallers, and run the Pro Tools uninstaller shell script, and literally say yes to everything, and yes, I do mean everything it asks, no exception. Don't worry. It won't delete your /Library/Application Support/Avid/Audio/Plugins folder if you have anything in it not directly installed as a part of ProTools, like the Air stuff etcetera. That said however, I won't be responsible for any loss of data! Back up, back up, back? up! And oh, did I mention back, up! Next, I went back and again in the Avid uninstallers folder in Applications, I ran all the other uninstalls. Note that if like me, you have ProTools Audio bridge as one of the things to uninstall, I diddit, but I lost all sound temporarily. After about 3 minutes, I unloaded Voiceover, waited about 10 seconds to be safe, then reloaded it, and sound eventually returned. Also, and though I don't know this for sure, it's my theory this may be where I went wrong initially that broke it. It seems like, though you don't have to actually use it, you do! have to at least have Avid Link installed. Slau probably is gonna correct me here, but what I can tell you is this: I had Avid Link 2022.9 installed. Just installing PT 2022.12 wasn't enough. Doing that alone freaked things out badly. So, Yeah, in the uninstallers, I removed Avid Link. Then I went up to my Avid account at: http://www.avid.com/account I logged in, and under my products>View my products, I hit the down pointing triangle with VO+Space to the right of where it said Avid Link, then downloaded the actual dmg for Avid Link, ran it, and installed the updated version 2022.12. Evidently, it coincides the same version number as ProTools. Once this was done, I ran the installer from the mounted ProTools 2022.12 dmg. Then, though not prompted to do so, I rebooted anyway, just to be safe. Finally, I ran ProTools. Now, here's something to be mindful also of. When I did this, I still had some old AAX plugins lying around that I had installed from PT 2022.9. I dont' know what Avid has done, but apparently something. I say this as, PT came up and scanned/loaded plugins, even my 3rd party stuff, which by the way did not get deactivated thank God! Oh man that would a been a disaster! Eventually, PT got to, I believe if I remember correctly, vacuum, then it basically hung, and wouldn't continue loading anything nor taking me to the dash. I litewrally had to command tab out of the window, then do command+Option+Escape to force quit, and do so on ProTools. I finally got PT launched where vacuum passed with no issue, however, eventually, PT totally unexpectedly closed/crashed. This was 100 percent the time consistent over and over. So, that's when I finally chose to go back, log in to my Avid account and just redownload those installers which came with ProTools plus all the extra 3rd party stuff it let me redeem for free back in the days. None of it had to be reactivated. Just reinstalled. I think probably it needed some of those plugins to be updated, as I saw that they had versions 2022.12, so though I didn't look, my guess is probably that 2022.9 was probably the version of the plugins I had previously installed, and being those are not technically probably Ventura supported, it wouldn't work. The only reason I think it worked before is I didn't do a clean install of Ventura. I upgraded my system from MOnterey without wiping the drive and restoring from Time Machine. So basically, I know God, all, mighty! I went way out of my way making that harder than it had to be, but you did ask, so there you go! Honestly, had I just simply started to begin with by updating Avid link before installing ProTools, I probably wouldn't have had this issue. But as usual, I'm stubborn as a mule, and always take the hard way out. Slau, I feel your pain. You have every bit my permission to shoot me for this! LOL! I'd not blame him for being pissed for me being so damn stupid! I should have honestly known better. Uaaag! Chris. > On Mar 15, 2023, at 5:53 AM, Martin (Punky) Sopart <m...@cakewalker.de> wrote: > > Chris! > > What did you do to fix it? > Because... After trashing my Pro Tools prefs, I get the error you got. > > Best! / Martin > -----Original Message----- > From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com <ptaccess@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of > Chris Gilland > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 10:48 AM > To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com > Subject: My profuse apology guys: I got ProTools working > > Boy, this just hasn't been my night! > > Turns out, I have a few theories why I probably got the error I did, now, I > can't really speak for the error Martin is getting, but at least for me, I > think I know what happened, and it shouldn't happen to any of you. It was due > to something ridiculously stupid I did totally unrelated to ProTools, but as > a side-effect, it didn't play nicely with the upgrade to 2022.12. > > I'm just glad I can sleep easy now knowing it's pretty much fixed. I gotta > reconfigure some things, but whatever. I definitely made this way harder on > myself than it needed to be, and frankly, I feel like an idiot! > > Chris. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ptaccess/B7284C61-71C3-4C0F-8E8B-4936B0A3F06A%40gmail.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ptaccess/004801d95723%24fe1aa050%24fa4fe0f0%24%40cakewalker.de. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. 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