WHAM! Today I updated Pro Tools 8 on my office Mac desktop and that went swimmingly. Then, I started up the fresh new version and it crashed while loading the plugins…hmmm. I checked disk permissions and repaired them.
I restarted PT8 and it crashed again in the same place. So, I decided to remove the plug-in at the point where it was crashing. I went to the location of my PT plug-ins (LocalDrive>Library>ApplicationSupport>Digidesign>Plug-Ins)I removed the plugin “stereo mixer.dpm” and placed it in the unused plugins folder. Then, restarted PT8 and it crashed at the next plug-in “structure.dpm”.
Again, I restarted PT8 and it crashed at the next plug-in “surround mixer.dpm”. Finally, I restarted PT8 and everything loaded fine. Working on a session as I’ve paused to type. So, this fix worked for me. Searching for more info about this… was it a bug in the update??? is there something I missed???