High Sierra and Peak Pro 7

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bakkumd
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Re: High Sierra and Peak Pro 7

Post by bakkumd »

Interesting (and great) that it worked. I'm wondering if you are using 10.13 (or later)? If you are, your Mac must not have an SSD drive as it's startup drive?

Apple will reformat all SSD drives to the new APFS file format - but not spinner drives - when updating to High Sierra and beyond. So, when running any PEAK DSP menu action, I would get instant drive errors, following by a forced restart of the app. It was only out of sheer desperation that I tried another drive for cache files. From that point, I narrowed it down to the file format, as PEAK worked fine using a drive formatted with MacOS Extended (journaled). I chose a jump drive only to avoid the need to carry around a spinner for cache files. My jump drive stays in the slot 24/7 and sticks out less than half an inch.

All of my macs have SSD startup drives - so I can't assign the scratch files to them. I'm still using the SanDisk 64GB USB 3.0 drives I purchased at BestBuy for about $20 on sale. Works great - no crashes in weeks.
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