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massively grateful for your time, effort and replies having established that guitarport was definitely working fine, had another go connecting to mac plugged in guitarport opened gearbox failed to open (code 80000003) could not create a thread tried to open gearbox again, gearbox opened but still not connected have always closed gearbox with macs red stop button, for some reason clicked on gearbox's on/off switch next to tuner error could not enable/disable bypass reason: (code 8000740D) cannot access hardware device so closed with red stop button as usual triryche the link you added was certainly relevant enough to make me realize that although i thought i had deleted all line 6 files before reinstalling i clearly hadn't. merely trashing all visible files obviously leaves hidden files behind so decided to have another go at deleting / re-installing but this time more thoroughly first step, applications / line 6 / drivers. this folder don't contain drivers, contains line 6 driver uninstaller uninstalled drivers. restarted. thought i might as well have a go at reinstalling drivers and giving it a go there you go, all sorted, it was that easy guitarport fully functioning plugged in x3live yes also fully functioning the real zap "To remove driver 7.3.6" your way ahead of me i'm still on 7.1.9 it is an intel mac, operating systems are like women newer versions come along sleeker more attractive which function better but ultimately no less complicated, so after years of trying to work them out, i'm happy to stick with what i got. once again a big thank you for your time and effort very much appreciated tony

ok so with some inspired thinking and my determination to prove the human brain is smarter than a computer i have managed to get guitarport working on my wife's laptop i asked my daughter to sort it so the issue is clearly with my mac thanks for your help any further suggestions greatly appreciated

have downloaded software onto windows 8 laptop i have a green light on guitarport i have connection usb, esn 00079720 there is no icon installed onto desktop cant find anyway of opening it so cannot actually use the *+@%&* thing anyway have to leave it for now before my wife has an ex laptop what was so wrong with windows 98 ?

thanks for the reply i can open gearbox ok i get a no hardware found window come up click ok gearbox opens along with hardware memory window gearbox window has usb icon flashing line 6 monkey opens says connection usb ESN unknown in the updates window item installed newest drivers no 7.1.9 usb firmware unknown 1.02 flash memory unknown 2.01 license manager 1.07 1.06 monkey 1.67 1.67 pod farm no 1.12 variax workbench no 1.75 riffworks 2.22 2.22 gearbox 3.72 3.72 pod farm 2 no 2.57 if i click to update usb firmware click ok on software license agreement then window pops up could not establish a connection to pod x3 live please check your usb cable connections if the device is plugged in try disconnecting then reconnect ing the usb cable have done that i have a couple of usb cables works fine with other stuff but are not recognised

have been using a guitarport for years with gearbox with no issues on a mac osx 10.5.8 until guitar port stopped working, or so i thought, gearbox said nothing was connected eventually replaced guitarport with a second hand x3 live tried to connect to computer still have exactly the same problem i have uninstalled drivers etc restarted re-installed etc. etc. etc. when installing pod farm 2 install failed the installer could not extract files from the package for line 6 midi driver when trying to install pod farm 1 install failed the installer could not create the folder "/private/tmp/pod farm au plugin.pkg.1035rx0pvr". installed gearbox without any issues, have tried a different usb cable that works fine the software just isn't recognizing the hardware if anyone can help or point me in the right direction would be really really really appreciated cheers tony