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waiting to hear back from tech services regarding why I can not get Live 5.03 to start on my Mac. I am reading the posts here regarding Live 5 and thinking to myself hmmmm maybe I shouldn't have gone and purchased this program. This is agitated by the fact that for the past 3 days I have been e mailing tech services back and forth trying to get the program to start. Although some people seem to have complaints about particular problems I think to myself at leasat they can get the friggin program to start! I didn't have this problem with Live 4...and its even worst having to wait for an email which still might not solve the problem when all you want to do is start working on a new project.......sheese!!!!

Hello funkeprez,

It´s a relatively rare issue that one can not start Live at all.
We´re doing our best to find out why this happens in your case.
In most cases the VST folder or or insufficient permissions are the reason.
Did you try to create a new user profile and start Live from this profile?

best,
Christian
[email protected]

Yes I just created another user profile...logged into the new account and attempted to start Live 5.03...and the same thing happened the program appears to start up, Live icon bounces on my comps dock and the program just wil not start.......I noticed you mentioned VST folder so i searched my hadrdrive found 4 folders labeled VST, moved them to the trash and then attempted to start Live and it was a no go so I replaced the VST folders to where they were.....

I just went to my disc utilities and verified/ repaired persmisisions to see if that would do the trick..and still wasn't able to get Live 5.03 to start....

let me up this post......I feel like i have been robbed.........and like an idiot I brought alot of new equiptment specificall to use with Live 5.03....

?????? i even removed Roxio Toast, Jam and Peal LE from my comp to see if tht would do the trick...STILL NOT WORKING!!!

have you tried checking the crash logs? using the info supplied in the crash log and google it is amazing how quick these things can be sorted out sometimes.

its worth while being really systematic and if you are out of your depth then copy the whole crash log and send it to ableton.

try looking at macosxhints.com if you don't understand what you are doing.

funkeprez wrote:waiting to hear back from tech services regarding why I can not get Live 5.03 to start on my Mac. I am reading the posts here regarding Live 5 and thinking to myself hmmmm maybe I shouldn't have gone and purchased this program. This is agitated by the fact that for the past 3 days I have been e mailing tech services back and forth trying to get the program to start. Although some people seem to have complaints about particular problems I think to myself at leasat they can get the friggin program to start! I didn't have this problem with Live 4...and its even worst having to wait for an email which still might not solve the problem when all you want to do is start working on a new project.......sheese!!!!

what version of osx are you running?

OSX 10.3.9

anyone????

That sounds odd. I personally would remove the program and all traces of it and any other versions completely and do a fresh re-install.

yup did that ..and still wouldn't start...still waiting to hear from tech services......it's hard to near impossible to be patient when you have spent hard earned money on a product that you cant even use....

prez-

Sorry to hear about this. I ran 5.0.3 on 10.3.9 for the longest time and didn't have this issue.

Tell us the rest of the details about your computer specs...

so today tech services e mailed me back and told me to click on the Live icon ctrl click the Live app and choose "show package contents".Then open the "contents" folder. Then open the "resources" folder. Take the "Rewire.inst" out of the folder and place it on the desktop. Ok so i did all of that and Live did open but I had to messages one telling me "To reinstall Live because its intallation wasnt finished" thenI clicked ok then Live started up in demo mode....so the thing is now I can run Live w/out Rewire which for me is BULLSHIT if you pay for a program you should be able to run all of it's components. So i have been screwing around with this crap all day!!!!!!!!!!!!! So what I need to do now is take my computer somwhere and pay someone to repair whatever it is stopping Ableton from loading properly...this has me pissed the hell of beyond words i tink that i shouild leave this alone for at least two days vefore i filpp out on someone... this crap is jimmy rigged together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when removing the rewire portion of live and all the sudden it starts working then obviously one of your rewire clients and live aren't getting along. so maybe it's not lives fault but another programs fault? but then maybe it is lives fault. but you seem far too certain that this is an ableton problem when it could be a problem with your system or another program couldn't it?
not pointing the finger back at you I'm just saying you're way too angry at ableton when you aren't even sure if it's their bad.