Arduino won't upload to Pro Mini 3.3v

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hi! I just bought an Arduino Pro Mini 3.3v with FTDI 3.3v board. I installed the FTDI USB Serial drivers and have set up the correct serial port and board from the Arduino tools panel. However when I try to upload the basic blink sketch(or any other for that matter) I get the following error:

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

I'm using OS X 10.9.2. Tried uninstalling the drivers and the installing them again. I'm able tu upload any sketch in a PC with Windows 7 with the same USB cable. So I guess this must be some software error. I tried pushing the reset button just before the upload process but that doesn't work either.

It seems many people get the same error but only some of them are able to fix it. Any ideas would be really appreciated. Have spent half a day trying to figure this one out! =(

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Did you ever get this figured out? I'm having the same problem, Mac OS 10.9.4, 3.3v Arduino Pro Mini with this FTDI breakout https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9873, following this guide http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/ArduinoProMini.

I'm using some headers to connect the FTDI breakout and arduino as in the guide and made sure I selected the right board in the IDE. Tried multiple USB ports. I see a flashing green light on the mini during upload, but I always get a "avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding".

Anyone get this solved?

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In case anyone stumbles across this in the future, I was able to get this solved by Arduino Sketch upload issue - avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding - Stack Overflow. Somehow verbose mode + reset worked when just trying to reset didn't.