Does FCPX 10.2 runs on Maverick ?

Russ H wrote:

Ryan, I'm not sure about the answer. While I have partitioned quite a number of drives, I have not done so on s Fusion Drive…and (importantly) I can't test it to verify the answer. Suggest waiting for someone with first hand experience to chime in.

Russ

Thanks Russ,

Yes my iMac comes with fusion drive,

Anyone with fusion drive can help ?

Thanks

Ian R. Brown wrote:

What's all this business of upgrading to 10.1.4 about?

Surely if you install FCP X 10.2 it will update your 10.1 projects straight up to 10.2 ?

You don't need the intermediate versions.

Thanks Ian,

I thought that FCPX 10.2 wouldn't be able to recognise Events & Projects created by version before 10.1.4. That was why I thought I need to update them from my current 10.1 to 10.1.4 before 10.2 can recognise them.

If FCP X 10.2 will update my 10.1 projects straight up to 10.2, then I do not need to partition my harddisk.

For avoidance of doubt, willF CP X 10.2 will update my projects & events created by version earlier than 10.1 (eg 10.0.8) straight up to 10.2 ?

Thanks again.

Cheers

Ian R. Brown wrote:

What's all this business of upgrading to 10.1.4 about?

Surely if you install FCP X 10.2 it will update your 10.1 projects straight up to 10.2 ?

You don't need the intermediate versions.

Thanks Ian,

I thought that FCPX 10.2 wouldn't be able to recognise Events & Projects created by version before 10.1.4. That was why I thought I need to update them from my current 10.1 to 10.1.4 before 10.2 can recognise them.

If FCP X 10.2 will update my 10.1 projects straight up to 10.2, then I do not need to partition my harddisk.

For avoidance of doubt, willF CP X 10.2 will update my projects & events created by version earlier than 10.1 (eg 10.0.8) straight up to 10.2 ?

Thanks again.

Cheers

Ian R. Brown wrote:

Here is a one minute forty second video tutorial showing how quick and easy it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2M-RCc3Qgs

Thanks Ian for the youtube tutorial. I think I am confident to do that.

But why in the tutorial, the guy makes the old partition bigger than the one he wants to install Yosemite. Shouldn't we install Yosemite in a bigger partition since Maverick os only a backup and also for future use we gonna use Yosemite ?

Can I know why doing all this partition business, where will all my application softwares like Adobe Photoshop, MsOffice, GarageBand ... etc be ? in Maverick's partition or in Yosemite's partition ?

My apologies for the noob questions.

Thanks & cheers

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

I would not advise you to partition the drive.

It may be simple now, but eventually you will want to put Yosemite in the partition now occupied by Mavericks and it will be a pain to move things around.

A second partition will NOT benefit from the Fusion drive - it will be entirely in the hard drive part.

I would just clone the drive to an external, and install Yosemite on the Fusion drive.

You probably will not need to run Mavericks, and if you do, you have your clone. USB3 drives are so cheap now.

Yes Luis, I also think partition is not necessary for me bcos once i upgraded to Yosemite, I wouldn't be using Maverick much.

This is especially so if FCPX 10.2 will upgrade all those Events & Projects created in 10.1 to 10.2 once they are import in via FCPX 10.2 ... so, are you able to confirm that this will be the case ?

Thanks again

Ian R. Brown wrote:

An alternative strategy is to get a new USB 3.0 hard drive and install Mavericks on that so that should your upgrade to Yosemite not work as well as you hoped, you could boot back into Mavericks and use old apps and media.

Thanks Ian,

Yes, I think I will upgrade straight to Yosemite without partitioning ...

Sorry for this basic question but yes, I just bought a USB harddisk. But how do I install Maverick and the FCPX 10.1 media files and project files and event files in this new USB 3.0 harddisk ?

Thanks again,

Cheers

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

I would not advise you to partition the drive.

It may be simple now, but eventually you will want to put Yosemite in the partition now occupied by Mavericks and it will be a pain to move things around.

A second partition will NOT benefit from the Fusion drive - it will be entirely in the hard drive part.

I would just clone the drive to an external, and install Yosemite on the Fusion drive.

You probably will not need to run Mavericks, and if you do, you have your clone. USB3 drives are so cheap now.

Yes Luis,

Can I know how the steps to clone the Fusion Drive ? I already bought a USB 3 thumbdrive.

Thanks

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

Yes Luis,

Can I know how the steps to clone the Fusion Drive ? I already bought a USB 3 thumbdrive.

Thanks

Thumbdrive?! How large is it? How much space is used on your Fusion drive? You'll a drive that is a little larger than that.

Sorry Luis, I mean external harddisk drive. My fusion drive is only 3TB

Also, I think it is better than I install Yosemite & FCPX 10.2 on a USB 3 drive, test it and see whether FCPX 10.2 can upgrade events and projects created by 10.1. If that is possible then I upgrade the whole Maverick to Yosemite ...

Questions:

1. That being the case, much how space of Harrdidk do I need ?

2. If FCPX 10.2 cannot upgrade the Events & Projects created in 10.1 and corrupted it, when I go back to Maverick, will that Events and Projects will be corrupted too ?

Thanks

Ian R. Brown wrote:

1. Just install Yosemite on your USB HDD . . . it doesn't need partitioning . . . but if it's a new one check that it is formatted for Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

2. It shouldn't corrupt anything but just to be sure make duplicates of all your projects and hide them. You don't need to include render files so the duplicated projects will be small.

Thanks Ian & Luis,

Your suggestion & post and constant support help me solve the problem.

I bought a 3TB external HDD (now looks like an overkill .. lol) and install Yosemite in there ...

I also copied my libraries (created using 10.1) into the new 3TB external HDD. Then I install FCPX 10.2.

Ian is correct, FCPX 10.2 is able to update libraries created in 10.1 to 10.2. It need not be 10.1.4. This much I can confirm ....

Didn't have much time playing with FCPX 10.2 yet but I played with some of the 3D titles ...OMG it is awesome !

But then, I am glad I followed Ian's and Luis's suggestion to test the Yosemite & FCPX 10.2 in an external HDD first. This is because I am now facing with a lot of problem. Chief among them is now:

1) Yosemite cannot detect my Drobo external HDD ... this is a big problem bcos most of my libraries are in this harddisk

2) The "Macintosh" icon which is my main internal memory is not on my desktop so I went to finder and I saw the icon "Macintosh", so I drag it out onto the desktop. But instead of the icon appearing on the desktop, there was a "smoke" kind of action and it went "boom" missing ! I went back to Finder and now I cannot find the Macintosh icon ... how do I locate back the Macintosh icon ? Is this also the case of the Drobo HDD (in 1 above), it is some where there but the icon is not visible ?

3) where is my garageband ? it is gone

4) I used to have Adobe CC icon on top of the taskbar as I am a subscriber of Adobe CC ... now that also disappear ...

I will create another thread in Yosemite section for the 4 questions above.

Thanks for the help.

Hi there,

I may need to install Yosemite on my fusion drive now.

This is because I suspect that the Dorbo may not be able to be detected if the Yosemite is startup from a external hardddrive ... could this be the reason ?

If yes then I have to partition the fusion drive and run yosemite from the partition in the internal drive?

Could that be the reason ?

Thanks