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Old 12th July 2007   #1
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Logic gone crash happy - help!
A wee Logic crisis in motion - please help if you can....

My system drive keeled over a couple of days ago, but previously having read so many tales of woe from other folks in the same position, I already had my cloned FW bootable system drive ready to go.

On booting up, the smug look on my face soon disappeared when I realised I had to re-authorise a bunch of soft synths and plugs... Now, before re-authorisation, Logic would still run, just without the soft synths and plugs; everything OK. I've spent a couple of hours today doing the leg work with re-authorising, and now 'something' has gone wrong. Logic will go through the 'splash' page process OK, but then quits whilst in the period between the splash and loading up its Arrange page.

I've tried trashing preferences, switching off all attached drives and peripherals, but to no avail. Any suggestions?

And does anyone know how to run the AU val programme from outside Logic? I can't find it in Applications or anywhere else, but it'd be good to know if it's a plug that is crashing the program.

System is: G5 (pre-Intel) / 2.5DP / 6Gb ram / Logic 7.2.3

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Have you repaired permissions or reset PRAM?
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Also...

The old and trusted method of removing ALL components from AU folder and adding a few at a time whilst rebooting Logic, until you catch the culprit that causes the big crash...

Any plugs using VST to AU wrapper? if so the may have to be re-wrapped... something about the drive i.d perhaps...

Good luck.. it'll be alright, just a pain in the.....


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Take all the AU plug-ins from their folder (Library-Audio-Plug-ins-components), and try to relaunch Logic, if it works, it's one of your plugins that causes trouble.

Did you trash the Logic Preferences too ???

Also, i had the same kind of weird stuff some times ago, and for me it meant that my hard drive was about to die (back up all your stuff now)

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Thanks for all the suggestions guys. Turns out that NI Service Center was flaking out over an authorisation for StormDrum - 2 tries later that was taken care of, and everything was back to normal. Got to say, this isn't the first (or second, or third...) time that Native Instruments software has pissed me around. Spectrasonics, AudioEase, Arturia all seem to have simple systems that work - why does it always seem to be NI that are a pain in the arse?...
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I had some serious issues with Logic a while back and what it turns out was OSX has a preffrence file. I lost a bit on information but once that was reset I was good to go again. I guess I should have known this considering I was a certified Sun Solaris Admin for years (UNIX).

Still had to re authorise a bunch of my plugs though. Now that I think of it Reaktor was the big problem.
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next time, look at the crash.log. it may tell you what's wrong a lot quicker than trying to swift thru different possible solution.
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next time, look at the crash.log. it may tell you what's wrong a lot quicker than trying to swift thru different possible solution.
thanks for the suggestion theblotted - that's definitely one to remember for the future. Can you tell me where to locate the crash log?
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You can try starting whilst holding down one of these modifier keys to find out what is crashing it.

Logic Pro/Express 8 & 9: Startup modifier keys for troubleshooting
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Sorry just noticed in your sig that you are using ver 7

Logic Pro 7: Startup modifier keys
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