Thanks! I do have time machine working, and Dropbox as well. I'll have to check if things work better without these.
I'll let you know.
(working against a deadline, so I may not respond that quickly)

Thanks for helping. I tried all your suggestions. I'm afraid nothing worked.
I'll just have to render on my little pc laptop then. The mac simply won't render.
Weird huh?

Yes, that's what I thought,
but my Mac is a huge state of the art machine, stuffed with ram, and my PC is a tiny, 3 year old Surface pro...

Adding to that:

It doesn't render correct on a Mac. When I switch to PC, it renders fine.
Why can't I render image files on Mac?
I haven't the foggiest...

My project has a couple of small image files in it. When I render a single frame everything renders fine, but when I render to a sequence of png's the images are showing up as placeholder/broken link images.

How do I get it to render correctly?

Thanks Lukas!

In the sticky topic I am advised to report bugs here: Contacting Smith Micro Customer Service and Support URL: http://support.smithmicro.com/cs/smkb.c ... faqid=1854 However, - That link does not work. - In ASP9 the 'new layer comp' button becomes unusable because my saved comps overlap the pull dow...