Pro Tools 9.0.5 crashing just after startup

[ARTHANOR Productions]

Dear All,

I have tried everything, trash preferences etc. But ProTools 9.0.5 will constantly crash after startup, right after having scanned all the plugins and be ready to start...

I am running OSX 10.6.7.

Needless to say I had to downgrade to 9.0.3 for the time being !

Thanks,

[Park Seward]

All plug-ins up to date?

[Stiff]

Move all your plugins to a temporary folder and add them back one by one, starting and restarting Pro Tools with each one. If you have a lot of plugins you can take them and in chunks to narrow down which plugin it might be causing the problem.

Why do I immediately suggest this? Because it happened to me. The problem turned out to be my Flux plugins.

Good luck.

[ARTHANOR Productions]

Many thanks for this.
Does that mean that even if my plugins are up to date, they are not necessarily compatible with 9.0.5 ?
If this is the case, I'd rather wait ! )

[Farmer Dave]

Are you using any plug-ins from Fluxhome.com? I'm using TRAX & HEar, and 9.0.5 will not finish launching with those. I just tried their latest versions (1.1.9) this morning with no luck so went back to 9.0.3 for the 2nd time now.

[ARTHANOR Productions]

Yes indeed !
Oh well, I guess I will just wait for 9.0.5 until this is solved !
Thanks for the heads up
David

[raindog]

Hey Guys,

Had the same issue too upgrading to 9.0.5 - I removed my flux pure compressor and it started up no worries.

Thanks!

[ahendy]

I had the same issue. Turned out it was Vocalign Pro causing it. Moved it to the temp folder, had no issues since. 9 times out of 10 when Pro Tools is crashing during startup, it's a plugin related issue.

[GuitarTone]

I removed all my plugs and it still crashes. Anyone know how to trash preferences in LION? The pre-lion directions state "user -> your name -> library". But in Lion under "User -> your name" there is no "library" folder anymore. Any one figure this out yet?

[houser]

I have noticed a crash at startup when core audio is already open.
Have you tried opening PT first after making sure no other audio app is using core audio?
Also, Apple hid the ~/Library folders in Lion.
If you care to experiment type this into terminal to unhide that folder:
chflags nohidden ~/Library

Seemed to help for me on startup for some plugins.
DIsclaimer: don't do it if you are unsure or have work to do.
FWIW YMMV are always appropriate acronyms and this is after all a beta ...