Major Compressor Issues

[Jeremy Garchow]

How is the RAM physically configured in your Mac? What is where?

You can check this out by going to Apple Menu > About This Mac > More Info

Then click on memory. Take a screen shot of the resulting window and post it here.

Jeremy

[Scott Bush]

16GB Ram, 8x2GB sticks

[Jeremy Garchow]

Yep, all good there.

Did you try clearing the cache and history, as well as resetting background processes in Compressor?

Jeremy

[Scott Bush]

Yes I did… and then I completely reinstalled the OS and everything else, too; just for good measure… There’s something wacky going on here that doesn’t report in diagnostics.

[Chris Borjis]

scott download and install the free utility “cache out x”
don’t know if that helps but its worth a try.

also repair permissions if you have not already.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Chris Borjis] “scott download and install the free utility “cache out x” “

Which reminds me, (thank you, Chris) that there’s Comressor repair as well:

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

Jeremy

[Scott Bush]

Already cleaned caches, ran compressor repair, onyx, etc before my clean installation (all of that failing is what led me to do the clean install). But a fresh os install (with no archive and install) would be even cleaner, no?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Scott Bush] “But a fresh os install (with no archive and install) would be even cleaner, no? “

Should be, but I’d run it again just in case.

[Scott Bush]

Fair enough, I’ll give it a try.

Should ask – is there any downside to using something like compressor repair? I mean, let’s say it works – could I then just run it every day without any ill effects?

[Jeremy Garchow]

yeah, I think you should be good if it works for you.