Why won't Pro Tools 8 work with Mavericks?

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Why won't Pro Tools 8 work with Mavericks?

I downloaded the new OS today, and then my mac said that pro tools 8 LE won't work anymore. So, I tried opening the app and it asked me to download a new license, which I did. and then whenever I tried opening the app, it would crash right before finishing loading the last thing before opening (setting up peripherals)

What can I do?? I don't want to have to buy a new version of pro tools for a few hundred bucks when the version I have worked absolutely fine

Pro Tools 8 LE-OTHER, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 6:08 PM

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Answer 1

JMF

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Oct 22, 2013 6:09 PM in response to CaleBrooks

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/troubleshooting/Mac-OS-10-9-support-for -Media-Composer-Pro-Tools-Sibelius

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CaleBrooks Author

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Oct 22, 2013 6:43 PM in response to JMF

Well, that is terrible... hopefully Apple will get on this issue right away and bring back support for all of these products. Until then, I guess I'm going to have to deal with garageband 😟

thanks

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Oct 23, 2013 9:26 AM in response to CaleBrooks

It's quite usual for Avid to only update their most recent pro tools release to work with the newest os. Not really anything to do with apple. Avid have had access to builds of 10.9 for months now but even their most recent version of pro tools 11 doesn't work with 10.9. Pro tools 8 is now pretty old so it's very unlikely that they will update it to work with 10.9. I'm afraid your only options are upgrade pro tools or downgrade your os by doing a fresh install. For future reference I always try to do a full disk backup before any upgrade with disk utility, so I can go back if the worst happens.

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Cuepo

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Oct 25, 2013 5:52 AM in response to CaleBrooks

Hi,

Pt8 works on mine Macmini which I just Updated form Mountain Lion to Mavericks. I used Mbox Micro as interface. Haven't tryied with mbox 2 pro.

You must have the latest PT8 version which is something like 8.05. That was the update for Mountian Lion.

You will also have to have the PT10 interface drivers intalled. Midi drivers won't work. If you have them installed and try to use Logic, it won't start until you have trashed them.

Hope this helps

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Answer 5

Oct 30, 2013 6:08 AM in response to Cuepo

@cuepo You're a lifesaver. Thanks for this. Further to your post... I've upgraded to Mavericks and I'm running Pro Tools 8.0.5 and Logic 9.1.8. with an MBOX one.

Instead of trashing all the drivers, I trashed everything but "DigidesignMbox2MIDI.plugin" and everything is working perfectly with MIDI in both DAWs.

Hope this helps!

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Answer 6

Nov 1, 2013 9:49 AM in response to JMF

does anyone know how the BBC, Air studios, etc etc.. any proffesional studios who are running protools with Mac are coping with this mavericks problem?

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Answer 7

Nov 1, 2013 3:11 PM in response to daveaxeman

Easy, I've worked there. They don't upgrade until it's rock solid. They clone their working drive with disk utility and do tests on the backup until their happy.

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Answer 8

Nov 2, 2013 2:20 AM in response to robwithhair

thanks Rob..

I'll have to do the same...I'm on protools 10....they're advising the same and say they're working on mavericks issues their end also in the meantime...

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Dec 9, 2013 6:06 PM in response to CaleBrooks

I already had Pro Tools M-Powered 8.0.5 installed when I upraded to Mavericks on my Mac Mini i7 and on the first restart Mavericks prompted that my Pro tools would not work on this OS. It works GREAT! No problems at all. But I just bought a used Digi 002 and now trying to install LE on top of Mavericks. Looks like its not going to let me do that. Keep getting errors.

So maybe the trick is install Mavericks on top of existing Pro Tools and not Pro Tools on top fo Mavericks.

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