Bruce,

I would think that there is something not quite sparkling with either your DVD's or your G5 DVD player. My Solo strings installation was about 30 minutes from start to finish - also on a G5.

Julian

Juliian,

My sorry G5's are 1 and 2 years old respectively. They only cost me about 10 thousand dollars.

What, pray tell G5 are you using to sparkle so?

G5 2.5 dual - same as yours?

Julian

Perhaps some DVD drives are faster than others. I successfully installed the Solo String library in about 1 hour and 20 minutes on my dual 2.5GHz G5.

Correction - after reading your post I double checked my Logs to discover that the installation of Solo Strings took 1 hour 10minutes. The DVD's have worked out at about 15 minutes per DVD with the last one in any set often being shorter. The 30 minutes I was referring to was for the time for the Orchestral Strings packages which were 2 discs each.

sorry for the confusion!

Julian.

My God .... Solo Strings took 4.5 hours on my PC.

I have Athlon 3.2 GHz, and SATA 7200 rpm disks.


I did wonder afterwards wether I should have switched off my anti-vrius/security software during install.

Ouch Drew - I think mine took maybe 1:30 on a similar PC.

Hi,

switching off all antivirus software is always a good idea when installing large content, as every imported file is being checked, which prolongues the installation process...

Best, Paul

Marcussen, well I guess things just work faster in Denmark generally (like the postal system too) [[;)]]

Yes that - and lack of anti virus [:D]