Reaper 5 on a MAC Warning

rdesanti · 08-13-2015, 01:25 PM

So as a precautionary to all major upgrades I do, I ran the Reaper 64 bit version 5 upgrade on my portable and lo and behold ALL my themes and customizations got thrown to default! I am using a mac laptop OS X MTN LION with 8g RAM. I had to spend hours finding something like the theme I had to even get it near what I had. I spent literally weeks getting my version 4 to them and custom colors that I wanted for my workflow and frankly am scared to DEATH to ruin it! HOWEVER! it DID run perfectly with no other issues (that I could see) and the CPU rate was only around 10%! So I am thinking of running 2 versions keeping both and renaming them until I can get the new 5 to look just like my current version (4.78/64bit). So I was wondering if anyone with Yosemite (which is my main production machine) has had this happen to them. I also want to WARN other MAC Yosemite users of this as well.

airon · 08-13-2015, 02:49 PM

Did you try just exporting your whole setup from Preferences/General , and then importing that to the Reaper 5 instance ?

Might work.

serr · 08-13-2015, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by rdesanti

So as a precautionary to all major upgrades I do, I ran the Reaper 64 bit version 5 upgrade on my portable and lo and behold ALL my themes and customizations got thrown to default! I am using a mac laptop OS X MTN LION with 8g RAM. I had to spend hours finding something like the theme I had to even get it near what I had. I spent literally weeks getting my version 4 to them and custom colors that I wanted for my workflow and frankly am scared to DEATH to ruin it! HOWEVER! it DID run perfectly with no other issues (that I could see) and the CPU rate was only around 10%! So I am thinking of running 2 versions keeping both and renaming them until I can get the new 5 to look just like my current version (4.78/64bit). So I was wondering if anyone with Yosemite (which is my main production machine) has had this happen to them. I also want to WARN other MAC Yosemite users of this as well.

Wait... So you're saying that when you imported your saved configuration file, it just didn't work? As though the 'old' format of the configuration file (basically a zip file but with no .zip extension) is no longer supported?

That would be a bad thing.

Anyone else?

rdesanti · 08-14-2015, 07:05 AM

I did not export it as I would have hoped it would just keep it like the updates did. I will try this on my production machine and then put it on my laptop and see if that works. There should be an installation option or /switch for this or at LEAST a warning during the install. I'll have to look up how to export themes. Maybe I will keep both versions till then.

EpicSounds · 08-14-2015, 06:26 PM

You could have used TimeMachine to instantly reset your resources folder to before the install.

rdesanti · 08-23-2015, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by rdesanti

I did not export it as I would have hoped it would just keep it like the updates did. I will try this on my production machine and then put it on my laptop and see if that works. There should be an installation option or /switch for this or at LEAST a warning during the install. I'll have to look up how to export themes. Maybe I will keep both versions till then.

UPDATE: I got it working. Did export from my production machine and exported/save my theme. Then imported both of them and got it working.

EpicSounds · 08-23-2015, 09:24 AM

Get your backups sorted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh9j...2F63B&index=23