Motion Icons Missing

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Motion Icons Missing

Having the latest version of Motion installed for months I launched it and all the icons are missing. The buttons on the "Welcome to Motion" screen are blank. They don't contain any graphics. The main window's buttons now display text and a large space above them for the graphics, but again, no graphics. I also noticed the Timeline's graphics don't show either. The color separators used for defining the life of an object are not visible.

I have just re-installed motion from the FCP universal CD's but receive the same results.

Anyone else run into this. I am running 10.4.7.

Thanks.

G5 Dual 2.0GHZ, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Aug 29, 2006 3:33 PM

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Answer 1

Nipsey

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Aug 29, 2006 6:27 PM in response to Zerst

Try (re)installing Pro Application Support 3.1 (Mac OS X 10.4)

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/proapplicationsupport31macosx104.html

If you have installed it in the past, remove its receipt (called ProAppRuntime.pkg) from /Library/Receipts/ first so that it will be fooled into reinstalling itself completely.

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Zerst Author

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Aug 29, 2006 6:58 PM in response to Nipsey

I removed the receipt package, downloaded and (re)installed the pro apps package but the same issue remains. I also started Motion from within a new user account with the same issues of missing icons. I have also noticed the missing icons in the system and user preference panels.

Again, any ideas would be beneficial at this point.

Thanks.

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Answer 3

Nipsey

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Aug 29, 2006 7:59 PM in response to Zerst

Ack that sounds worse than an issue with Motion.

Have you run Disk Utility (Repair Permissions and Repair Disk)?

Did you install anything that you can remember recently to cause all this strange behavior?

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Answer 4

Aug 30, 2006 9:18 AM in response to Nipsey

Also,

This happens only in Motion-or there are "strange" behaviors elsewhere?
When you open Motion > Preferences > General or Appearance what do you read ?

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Zerst Author

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Aug 31, 2006 7:01 AM in response to Kyriakos Papadakis

Hi. This problem is only limited to Motion at this point. The preferences I mentioned where those internal to Motion. The Motion > Preferences > General and Appearance show up fine but with out Icon graphics on each button at the top of the window frame. I am going to reload the entire system due to other instabilities noticed over the past 24 hours (ie. address book dumping all my addresses, Mail locking up repeatedly, etc...).

This system has been stable for at least 6 months when I reloaded it before due to stability problems with FCP. I will need to check into possible drive or hardware issues next. But hey, at least I am not reloading every 6 weeks due to spyware like I did with Windows XP.

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Zerst Author

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Aug 31, 2006 7:03 AM in response to Zerst

Problem solved with a complete System Reload of Tiger and fresh installation of FCP. Not the best solution, but one that works.

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