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Downgrade from Mountain Lion to Lion
I just bought a new 6 core 3.33 Mac Pro and it came with Mountain lion. I 've learned that ML is not good at all for Soundminer. Before opening the box, I would like to know for sure if I can downgrade to Lion. I called apple they said yes but my retailer said you can't.
My associate bought a 6 core westmere 2 months ago and it came with Lion, but some people on the apple forum say you can't downgrade from mountain lion to Lion. They say the hard drive has a software to prevent the downgrade. Can someone give me a clear answer to that. Again I don't want to open the box until I know for sure... Thanks!
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Re: Downgrade from Mountain Lon to Lion
Just to be clearer, this is what I 've found on apple forum:
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Re: Downgrade from Mountain Lion to Lion
That Mac Pro was shipping before Mountain Lion. As such, you should be able to wipe the drive and install Lion, provided you have a Lion installer. I do not have access to that Mac Pro to try this. Perhaps you should buy a second hard drive, clone Mountain Lion, then try to downgrade.
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Re: Downgrade from Mountain Lion to Lion
How is ML not got with Soundminer?
I'm on 10.8.2 and use Soundminer V4Pro all the time. Got no issues.
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Re: Downgrade from Mountain Lion to Lion
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What version of PT and soundminer are you using? Thanks to both!
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Re: Downgrade from Mountain Lion to Lion
I believe that you simply cannot erase the disk that The Disk Tool is running from. You have to boot to another partition and erase while the disk is offline.
The newer notebooks should already have a "recovery disk" option you should be able to get to. Holding down "option" while booting will let you select drives Hold down "command+r" to boot directly to recovery disk if present. Or you can create a bootable USB ( instructions online at apple ) and boot from it in the same "option" manner, then wipe the main drive. |
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Re: Downgrade from Mountain Lion to Lion
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I'm running Soundminer V4Pro (4.3v34) and Pro Tools HDN 10.3.2 on OSX 10.8.2. When did Steve state this? Maybe it's already been fixed in the up to date version? I mean, ML is out a pretty long time now, so one would think, they had plenty of time making their software work with the OS. I really wouldn't go through all the troubles downgrading, if I were you. Just give it a try as is.
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Re: Downgrade from Mountain Lion to Lion
It's a little more complicate than that, Soundminer has the best support but is also interacting with other companies. They are working back and forth with Avid and Apple but is seems the fixes would be in the next release by the end of December.
I might try ML but I easily switch back and forth between Soundminer and Pro Tools 150 to 250 a day. So I want to make sure it is 100% stable. Now I might need to start a new thread on how stable is ML and HDX but I will try the search engine first...
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