I’ve updated to High Sierra, now the DAW crashes or I can’t activate the licenses
Upgrading to High Sierra (macOS 10.13) may break Logic Pro X, Main Stage, Garage Band, or other DAWs.
Symptoms:
- Plugins can’t validate the license file
- Plugins crash or hang the DAW while scanning or loading a session
- Presets, channel strips, and templates can’t be saved or loaded
Cause:
If you upgraded from Logic Pro 9 to Logic Pro X prior to the upgrade to High Sierra, chances are that your “Audio Music Apps” folder is broken.
Fix:
- Go to your “Music” folder in your user home. If you find an alias to “Audio Music Apps”, delete it.
- Create the folder “Audio Music Apps” inside “Music”, you should have this structure:
Macintosh HD / Users / “your user home” / Music / Audio Music Apps - Open Terminal (you can find it in /Applications/Utilities/) and paste this:
open /.HFS+\ Private\ Directory\ Data?/ - Copy/move the content you’ve found with the Terminal into the newly created “Audio Music Apps” folder.
- Restart your Mac just in case.