Compressor Droplets not working and showing developer icon on desktop

[Neil Patience]

I have had Compressor do some crazy things from time to time and in most cases Digital Rebellions Compressor Repair has worked.

That said in this case it does seem that perhaps something else is at play with other icons being corrupt etc.

However its a free App so worth a shot https://www.digitalrebellion.com/compressorrepair/

I hope it helps but not 100% confident on this one, it cant hurt though.

best wishes
Neil
http://www.patience.tv

8 Core MacPro, Kona 3, Tangent Wave, Mackie Universal Symphony 6.5 FCP7
i7 2.7 Gig MBP (non retina) 16Gigs Ram Blackmagic Monitor Mini Symphony 6.5 FCP7

[Rafael Amador]

That’s nothing related with Compressor or FCS.
Your system needs some maintenance because even the finder is unable to show the proper icons.
I would run DiskWarrior. Try first making a Safe Boot.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Tom Matthies]

Ran Disk Warrior but it didn’t fix the problem. Interestingly, if I boot from my backup drive that I updated just before running Disk Warrior, the icons look/work fine. This is an incremental backup made with CCC so I’m assuming that something is possibly corrupt with the OS and not the Droplets themselves. Short of reinstalling the OS, is there any way to isolate and fix the problems? If I create a new Droplet, it shows on the desktop just fine.

E=MC2+/-2db

[Rafael Amador]

Tom,
The Droplets are very small but they have a quite complex structure. If they were just documents, it could be easily fixed with the “Open with..” function, but they are in fact applications and -at least for my self- is not easy to know what has gone wrong inside.
You could try to compare the package contents of a droplet that is OK with he one that is not working (that’s the kind of things on what I love to waist my time), but probably will be easier to make new droplets.

[Tom Matthies] “Ran Disk Warrior but it didn’t fix the problem. …..If I create a new Droplet, it shows on the desktop just fine.”
Is possible that DiskWarrior is not able to fix the old droplets because the are corrupted, but may have fixed the issue that produced that corruption.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Mark Spano]

In this case, it is the Droplet application (inside the Compressor application package) that has become corrupt. I have seen this before and not been able to source why this happens. But you will notice that Compressor Repair does nothing to fix (because it operates on the QMaster engine and prefs, neither of which are the application package). You will also notice that any droplets that work on other systems will not work here, and any new droplets created on this system also won’t work.

The solution is to find a copy of the Compressor program (from another station if you have it). Show Package Contents and you will see the Droplet application inside. Copy that Droplet application into the Compressor package on your non-working system. Voila it all works again.

[Tom Matthies]

Thanks Mark. I’ll give that a try. I just rebuilt the original Droplets from the presets in my Compressor program. The came up on the desktop with the correct icons but I didn’t try them to see whether they actually worked or not. I have another system available that I can copy the Droplet app from and try that.

E=MC2+/-2db

[Alex Hay]

Mark, that was a fantastic help. Had the exact same problem and it fixed it perfectly.

Thanks a lot!

[Jesse Chapman]

THIS. This is the solution. Thank you so much!