I have had many trusty years service from my original Mbox along with various versions of Protools LE starting with 5 on my G3 iBook back in something like 2003. Moving up to version 6 then 7 and moving across to my G4 PowerBook was fairly painless. However withmoving over to my MacBookPro 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo I’m a bit stuck as I’ running Snow Leopard. Version 7 pont blank refuses to work, so it looks like a upgrade to ProTools LE 8.03 is inorder as this supports 10.6. However my trusty Mbox is no longer support regardless of the fact that it’s a prefectly good piece of kit in full working order and never missed a beat. A very sad time as the new Mbox2’s are much bigger in form, not so good for throwing in your bag. So it’s time to say fairwell to my Mbox or to ProTools, £300+ later at digital villavge and I’d got the Mbox2 on it’s way.
Had I known quite what a polarver getting it installed was going to be it would have almost been worth keeping my Mbox and PowerBook. So I tried to install it, I didn’t have sufficient priverlages to install it in my regular account so I logged into my admin user account still wouldn’t install. Hmmm so I did repair permissions and tried again, still no dice. So after much hutting arround a lot of the forums the soloution seemed to be the following.
You need to create a new fresh user account with admin priverlages and install ProTools there. Once that is all donw you can delete that user account. Not very Pro if you ask me however it’s now in and running, eve if It did take about two hours longer than it should.
