Download FCP 10.6.5

Tom,

Thanks. Is this the MDS software? (didn't see free version):

https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/mds/

And TM= Time Machine?

Is there something that the MDS software does, that's not covered in Apple's own instructions here using Terminal??:

Create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support

Appreciate your insight.

Do you have a Time Machine or other backup? The TM drive will have older installed software.

May I ask what software requires 10.6.5 but won’t work in 10.6.6?

Switch off auto update in the App Store and System Preferences if you have them turned on.

hi Tom, im using plugins from Pixel Film Studio, they told me that they are only compatible with 10.6.5 I need to move on with my work and I can't find any installer or download available on apple to be able to move forward at least until they update these plugins

Did you update the library from 10.6.5 to 10.6.6? If the library has been updated, and there are no backups for the library or the application, I really don't know what you can do, other than not use the plugins.

There may be a sneaky workaround to get 10.6.5 - depending on which macs you have access to. If you can temporarily run Big Sur, log in to the App Store and download FCP from your purchase list, you will get 10.6.5, as it is the last version that works in that OS.

Smiley & Tom,

I have similar situation - but luckily had back up of all of my FCPX libraries to revert back to the 10.6.5 version. And then I used TimeMachine to revert back to FCPX 10.6.5

So - same issue with CoreMelt's plug-in's... they had to upgrade them as the older one's no longer compatible with FCP 10.6.6. I'm hoping to be able to keep an external bootable drive with these FCPX 10.6.5 libraries and that version of Final Cut... and use that for whenever I need to make revisions / edits to older projects. But then meanwhile update my iMac (2019 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9) hard drive to 10.6.6 and create new libraries - on new, different external drives, going forward. Does that sound like the best plan? Or is there another way?

CoreMelt are telling me to "keep a zipped copy of FCP 10.6.5 and your libraries before they are updated. I would recommend buying an external SSD and use that to keep a boot drive with FCP 10.6.5 on it."

If that is the best way forward, can you point me on how to do that?

Thanks in advance.

I use the free MDS software. You can download the latest version of Ventura and use it to create a boot installer on a jump drive. You can do that all from inside MDS. However you do it you're getting a full installer of the system and putting it on a bootable jump drive. You then boot into the installer drive and then the system on the external SSD. During the system initialization process you migrate the users only from the TM drive. When the system is up and running you can copy 10.6.5 from your TM drive to the external system. Launch the application and open the 10.6.5 version of your library.

Sorry. I have the older, free 4.3 version. It was a simply download and drag and drop utility. It's unfortunate they're stopping supporting this as a single user utility.

The Apple terminal instruction is the backend process. It works of course. Make sure you use the exact names of the installer and of the drive you're going to, and that the jump drive is HFS+ to start not APFS.

Hi Tom, I am on samme situation, somehow my FCP was updated to the 10.6.6, but I would like just to get back to 10.6.5, as all my m02 assets and plugins just stopped working, as warned by the m02 folks. I use TIME machine and it is only a week I had that general upgrade/update because of the warnings APPLE sent to urgently go up on the lot because of some security issues, or so.

I am no familiar on how to do a recovery from a backup on TIMEMACHINE. Do you have some links or idea of how to do it and what do I need to do with the newly installed 10.6.6.

Thanks in advance.

Ignacio

1) In Finder, press Command-Shift-A to open the Applications folder.

2) Make a zip of the current version by control-clicking on Final Cut Pro and choosing Compress Final Cut Pro

3) From the Time Machine menu choose "Enter Time Machine".

Navigate back in time, and when you reach the point where you have the version you want, select Final Cut Pro and click Restore. You will be asked if you want to keep both versions, or replace with the one from Time Machine.

Note: libraries that were updated for 10.6.6 will not work in 10.6.5. If need to recover those, you will need to keep 10.6.6, export XML from those libraries (choosing version 1.10) and import that XML into a 10.6.5 library.

Thanks

Hi Luis, meny thanks for your quick feedback, it is incredible stright and simple. AND IT WORKS perfectly, no doubt, when one knows, one knows...

Ciao and keep well.

Ignacio