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  • Can’t cancel a job in batch monitor

    Posted by Jonathan Fraser on July 16, 2007 at 8:54 pm

    Something went horribly awry during an export out of compressor (the job progress got stuck) , and I’ve decided to re-submit my batch. The problem is that I can neither pause nor cancel the current stuck job in the batch monitor. I can add as many jobs as I want to the queue, but it’s been “cancelling” for about half an hour. Any help is appreciated, thanks for your time.

    El Earthbourne replied 14 years, 10 months ago 10 Members · 12 Replies
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  • Daniel Low

    July 17, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    Force the application to quit – right-click (CTRL-click) on its dock icon

  • Timebombtim

    July 17, 2007 at 9:05 pm

    wait it out, or foce quit and restart, pick up from the last successful file. best i can do.
    peace

  • Jonathan Fraser

    July 17, 2007 at 9:41 pm

    Thanks for the replies I had tried quitting and restarting (was able to do both) but everytime I opened compressor the job would just start back up again in a frozen state. Funny enough just after I posted I found a clear queue button and was able to re-submit and be on my way. Thanks again for the time though.

  • John Atkins

    August 8, 2007 at 12:34 pm

    None of this worked for me. Even turning off the whole computer did not remove the file from the Batch folder. Here’s a solution I found on the Apple support site…and it works.

    1. In Finder select go, go to folder
    2. Enter: var/spool/qmaster
    3. This will find a folder (oddly named with numeral & text). Trash the folders you see INside this folder (mine were called Shared & Jobs
    4. In compressor, select the menu item Compressor/reset Background Processing.

    John.

  • Robert Gillmer

    May 18, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    [johatk] “2. Enter: var/spool/qmaster”

    It’s actually ” /var/spool/qmaster ” and thank you very much, I had the same problem.

  • Elijah Lynn

    July 30, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    I have two folders in my /var/spool/qmaster/ I guess I will delete contents in both.

    Brand new mac pro 8 core with FCS and been having a ton of compressor issues.

  • Keith Golinski

    June 2, 2009 at 7:06 pm

    Great Post! Thank you.
    I had the same issue. Bad design.

  • Hope Holmesby

    July 28, 2009 at 2:27 am

    where did you find a button in batch monitor that says clear queue?

  • John Atkins

    July 28, 2009 at 2:42 am

    Here is a free utility that may help.

    https://www.digitalrebellion.com/compressor_repair.htm

    John.

  • Fabian Hannaert

    March 21, 2010 at 9:25 pm

    a million thanks! it worked for me too.

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