Ghost menu in Encore

Hi all,
I've been authoring a Blu-Ray with Encore CS5. Blu-Ray is now ready for burning.
I try to make an ISO image of it but it crashes all the time.
Then I found that in project checking Encore finds one orphan menu named ._xxxx.psd (Notice the first marks.)
This menu is a ghost PSD file from a mac. Which has been somehow imported to Encore. I have deleted this ghost file from harddisk.
When I try to delete it from Encore it crashes all the time. I have also made a same named file with real psd-content to harddisk.
What should I do?
Best regards
Kari Mankinen
Toast Post Finland

Kan,
I agree with Stanley. There have been instances of "phantom Menus" appearing in Projects. The most common reason is that the user accidentally chose the default Menu (was Party Time in previous versions), realized their mistake, and terminated the Menu Import, before it finished. However, there have been other, unexplained causes for those too, but it's usually the default Menu.
Now, as you point out the _xxxx.PSD, and mention that it is from a Mac, I need to ask, are you on a Mac?
I deal with a lot of Mac files coming to me from artists and subs, who are on Macs, and there are often those _ files, but they are usually tiny, and not the full image, AV, or whatever. I assume that they are some sort of locator file, but really do not know Macs.
If all you are getting is the Check Project warning, I would ignore, and try to build. Otherwise, and with some of the phantom Menu issues, starting over has always cleared the issue.
Good luck,
Hunt

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