Hi, I’m having trouble launching Audacity (2.0.0 and 2.0.1 likewise).
I’m using OSX Lion on a Macbook Pro
Audacity bounces in dock for about a minute, then appears as active upon application scrolling (but not in dock). Then I get a window concerning a plugin I need to register (VST Surround Zone). I “Done” that and Audacity now appears to be active in dock, and there is an Audacity menu bar, but with no menus (!).
After a while (about 6 minutes in total) I do get my old Audacity back but it is very unstable and crashes rapidly
I do imagine it has something to do with the darned plugin. Someone can help ?
As you can launch the old Audacity version, open that and disable VST effects in Preferences. Close Audacity, then try launching the new version of Audacity. Does it open now?
Try giving Audacity a .cfg file that disables VST and Audio Unit plug-ins.
In Finder, Go > Go to Folder, type ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/ .
Open audacity cfg to edit it, or if there is no audacity.cfg, create a new text file in TextEdit and save it as audacity.cfg. The content of audacity.cfg should be only this:
Thanks for posting the old file. I don’t see anything obviously “bad” in it, so the problem was probably an Audio Unit or VST plug-in (more likely a new system Audio Unit). .
If you want to find out which plug-in caused the problem, I’m afraid it’s a question of enabling Audacity’s Audio Unit or VST support again and taking plug-ins away from where Audacity looks for them until it launches again.