Compressor: Troubleshooting basics

Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Joseph Nilo

Apple has a page available to help troubleshoot the (problematic at best) Compressor that we’ve all grown to love/hate. The most exciting adventure is the last step — Remove and Reinstall Compressor, which has you searching the depths of your system for all of Compressor and Qmaster’s little droppings. I’ve done this more times than I’d wish to remember.

I hate to bash Compressor, for when it works, it works well. But when it doesn’t, it’s very frustrating (especially when needing to make a DVD for a 5 PM FedEx shipment).

Filed under: Troubleshooting, Tutorial, Video

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One Response to “Compressor: Troubleshooting basics”

  1. sLesage, on February 25th, 2008 at 2:41 pm Said:

    Hi,

    Sadly this didn’t help in any way in my case. I think I’ve already reinstalled Leopard and FCS2 four or five times. Still I can’t seem to get a Virtual Cluster up and running stable on my Mac Pro Octo. Some days it does work, but 85% of the time it doesn’t work at all.

    Strange thing is that I have it working perfectly under 10.4, and I’m now even considering reverting back to 10.4 again until the compressor stuff is resolved.

    Regards,

    Stefaan

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