Menu Bar Turns A Burgundy Red When Opening an Application.

Cteam56 wrote:

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Hi! I did the thing, and there seems to be a handful of crashing info but I'm definitely not fluent enough to know what the whole story is.

you can try both:

Reset NVRAM/PRAM.  Reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support

Reset SMC Reset the SMC of your Mac - Apple Support

To trouble shoot further you can:

 —A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.

Login and test. Reboot  as normal and test.  Caches get rebuilt automatically.

This test will tell you if third party interference; most extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode. 

—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support

  This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 

I might suspect :

< Blackmagic RAW Player.app >

or

< Dante Virtual Soundcard >

Cteam56 wrote:

Our MacBook Pro (16" 2019 Touch Bar) started having an issue where it wouldn't open a programme. First it was Safari, and Spotify, but a reinstall fixed Spotify and a restart solved safari (and therefore allowed me to reinstall Spotify since I couldn't open safari either).

Later, I tried to open a different programme (Qlab) and it wouldn't open. The menu up top goes Burgundy red and then goes back to normal. It then wouldn't open the application. I tried reinstalling and the issue continued. Tried restarting, and the problem persisted.

Put the computer away and came back to it later. It now opens the programme in question, but still brings up the red bar before doing so.

I tried searching to figure out what it's trying to communicate, but all I find are the bright red menu bars and things not related to the issue. To fully clarify, it's a faded burgundy and not a bright red, and it's the whole menu bar.

It's all very disappointing that it's acting up again because we just had the whole laptop reset and cleared because it got a corrupted startup disk out of no where.

Currently running 14.2.1

Sounds like third party interference or incompatibility...

You can get a good look at your User/System config. and reveal conflicts or issues, you can download/run this trusted utility https://etrecheck.com

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