Os X 10.5.7 Update Options

[lepetitmartien]

Here, the combo at Apple (recommended), beware, it's HEAVY (729 MB).

Remember that for music making it's safer to wait a little to see if nothing ugly shows…

So far, for normal use (non-musical) it's ok, but expect one or two reboot. In case of things seem blocked, wait a unreasonable amount of time (an hour) and you should have an up to date back up… just in case.

[lepetitmartien]

Any word about the latest OS update with Ableton Live?

I know have 2 reports as of Live 8.03 running smoothly for now.

Hi,
How do you clone a complete DAW ?
I have a Glyph external HD that I save my Cubase 4.5.2 music projects onto.
I have just done the 10.5.7 update and I think I should do a back up.

You need :
- some real estate on a hard drive, preferably one hard drive you DON'T use. It must be at least the size of the hard drive to clone (time to think about not using 2 GB disks for the system…
- Some cloning software. I use Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC), which is free, can make incremental clones (so it is up to date) and works. Some prefer others (CloneX for example) or use Time Machine for example.

One important things about clones : always test the clone by booting on it and check things purr as they should. If they don't, format and do it again.

If time is an issue (cloning takes an LONG time), Time Machine will do a similar job in some ways and faster. I won't enter here in the advantages/disadvantages of cloning, archive or TM as it far from the focus of the thread.

Anyway you choose, it's important to keep thinking it's a clone for safety and it should not be used for other purposes save updating the clone/recover the system/apps/user accounts and to use the drive (a glyph to add to) you use for day by day work.

Actually, there is an issue that has come about in Live 7.0.16 that has not been corrected, and it came at an intermittent time with regards to MY system, so the culprit could be a combination of several things, not just the OSX update == although, apple updates seems to cause much more havoc with my pro tools setup than ANYTHING that ever has taken place with Live over the past 7 years.
It has to do with rendering at 32b. Occasionally, the rendering will freeze, and the "timeline / rendering % completion bar" will ONLY move when you start to mouse anywhere on the screen. No mousing, no progress . . . move your mouse in little circles, and the rendering % completion bar returns to normal.

This only happens at 32b not 24b or 16b.

It's an odd quirk, but one that I discovered to be annoying if you have a client in chair and you are endlessly waiting to hear how the "soup" turned out.

Either you have something fishy or it's a bug, but it may be not system related… Maybe a thread of his own would be great in the Live sub-forum ?