Compressor

[David Roth weiss]

Compressor has a Prefs file you can trash exactly like FCP does. Look around and see if you can locate it and trash it. It just might save you a reinstall.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Dan Browne]

Awesome thank you. Do you have any idea of what it might be called? or what the extension for it is?

Dan Browne
Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Cloud South Films
http://www.cloudsouthfilms.co.nz

[David Roth weiss]

I knew were gonna ask me that… Unfortunately, I couldn’t find it. Jeeze, maybe it doesn’t exist after all???

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Michael Sacci]

in user/library/preferences

com.apple.compressor.Compressor.plist
com.apple.Compressor.CompressorSharedService

Compressor is a weird bird to fix, and you should not just reinstall it, all the flies that go alone with it need to be removed before you do the reinstall. Take a look at –
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302845

I have bookmarked this page!

[David Jahns]

$39.95 to anyone who writes a script that does this procedure for you!

I had to re-install Compressor 2 a few years back using the above procedure, and in Compressor 3, I did all that and it STILL wouldn’t launch from FCP’s Export using CMP command. Eventually, I created an entirely new Admin User, and it worked fine. But of course, I had to spend a half day reconfiguring all of my other stuff to the new user.

Pain in the %&#!!!

[Alexander Kallas]

I need the $39.95!
AppDelete should get rid of it.
https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/appdelete.html

Cheers
Alexander

[David Jahns]

Wow – thanks!

If it actually works, i’ll donate $40 to the guy who wrote it as freeware! (Maybe I should give you a 10% finder fee, eh?)

[Patrick Donegan]

There is also AppZapper.

I got it as part of the MacHeist.

I am all the way in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

[Michael Sacci]

I would be nice if those work but I bet they only help a bit. There are several apps involved and I doubt if they are connected in anyway. I bet a script that finds and then deletes the specific files would do the trick.