so much for fewer restarts with OS X...

Check in the System Preferences to see if your machine is set to sleep automatically.

I was surprised to see in the Read Me for PT 6.1 that Digi says it is necessary to restart the computer when there is a force quit or a unexpected quit. I too was told the great thing about OS X is that after a crash you don't have to restart the whole rig. I have in fact had unexpected quits and successfully reopened PT with out restarting. I can only imagine that the connection to TDM hardware can get messed up in a force quit so a restart is required. I guess that makes sense. But it is a bummer. P.S. Also after any force quit/restart it's probably a good idea to go to disk utility and "repair permissions." Note: Oops...This isn't what I meant, I corrected this statement below...

You're right--I should have said after you have a few sudden quits or force quits causing you to restart a bunch of times you should do the repair the permissions. I definitely don't do it after every force quit. ProTools does not support the Energy Saver. You might want to check out the Read Me file for 6.1 update. There's a huge list of "known issues." The Energy Saver issue is one of the big ones.

Energy Saver settings are the second item on the OS X requirements page on the website: and item number 4 under "Installing Pro Tools 6.1 on Macintosh" in your "Upgrading to Pro Tools 6.1" document.

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You were supposed to write that 10 times...you missed one. I suggest you write it over...

Running fsck -y without CD: Reboot, after the starup sound press and hold "command and s" (boots into single user mode) type "fsck -y" press RETURN try again if errors are found, repeat until all clear. type "reboot" press RETURN done.