sorry, just checked the specs. it is USB 2. apologies, must be NFTS or Administrator Access that's the problem sorry can't help you further

I've just reread your post. I think you're working with the old low speed USB1 beg borrow or steal another comp to dub your mediafiles across or pull out the drive and put it in a FW enclosure the problem isn't NFTS, it's USB. Sorry I missed that before

Can you start XpressPro with a project from your internal drive? If so, I'd suggest you start a new project on your mac (same format, same frame rate) and copy the required bins (only the bins) across to that project. Then try to open the bins you just copied and see if it works. I use FAT32 DOS formatted drives regularly on my Macs. You may have

I could find no upgrade offer AXP to MC in the avid store. what are youfolks talking about? Rodney

fyi no success deinstalling and reinstalling app; no success reloading sentinel.kext as root user, following the instructions posted elsewhere; no success trashing all avid packages in library, downloading and reinstalling sentinel drivers, reinstalling app. no success reinstallung 10.4.10 and AXP 5.7.7 repeat steps one to three... and again... after

Hi CPP I'm having exactly the same problem that you describe. Also been through all the steps that you went through. Did you have any success with erase and install? Please let me know. I'm supposed to begin a big HDV doco edit tomorrow and am close to panic! I'm running OS 10.4.10 on a MacBookPro 2.2GHz, had AXP 5.7.7 working wonderfully then foolishly

"can I run 5.7" means can I reinstall and use 5.7? It doesn't mean that I still have the 5.7 software hanging about on the HD... thanks for your help

User has full admin privileges. No Dongle was Found. Please connect... etc comes when I start AXP. Dongle wasn't attached during installation this afternoon. I shall uninstall and reinstall. Thanks. I have an edit starting on Wednesday. If after reinstallation, 5.8 continues to ignore the dongle, can I run 5.7 under OS 10.4.11?

Hi BlkDog, downloaded and installed AXP v5.8, downloaded and installed OSX 10.4.11. Noted in your post that there is no need for a dongle update as I was running AXP 5.7 Sadly (very sadly) AXP is not recognising my dongle. The DongleManager is and reports along with S/N and Dongle ID following info: Product: Xpress Pro Model: Avid Xpress Pro Version

Hi James sorry to leave you chatting to yourself for so long, but I only logged on today. I'm starting a HDV to SD DigiBeta project on Wednesday (52min doco) and planning to transcode and edit in DNxHD145. After approval I plan to export a QT (or perhaps a series of them), reimport into my Meredien v12 Media Composer at 1:1, relay sound, then play out