I am trying to run Audacity 2.1.1 installed from the disk image found here: http://audacityteam.org/download/mac
I am running El Capitan, OS X 10.11.1 Beta (15B30a) on a MacBook.
I install by dragging the Audacity folder to my applications folder as recommended. When I attempt to start Audacity the following pop-up appears:
“The application “Audacity.app” can’t be opened.”
I tried right-clicking on the app and selecting “open” from the drop-down menu, same result.
In my Console I do see messages regarding Audacity, which I’ll paste below.
Any help interpreting these messages would be much appreciated, thanks! I don’t understand them.
I was able to get Audacity to start as follows: I opened the package contents and drilled down to /Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/ where I found an executable “Audacity” with no “.sh” extension. Double-clicking it opens a Terminal, and subsequently Audacity opens.
I manually added “.sh” to the executable; I got a warning the first time I tried to run it. (I didn’t copy/paste so I don’t have the exact warning language; it was a warning the app may be incomplete or damaged.) I then changed the executable back to no extension and it opened OK. I made a copy of the executable and then renamed THAT to “Audacity.sh” and tried launching using the application icon in the higher level folder /Applications/Audacity.
THIS OPENED SUCCESSFULLY! I first got the standard warning that the app was DL’ed from the Internet, and I OK’ed it. The app then opened. Second launch no warning.
I was able to test the basic function of recording and playing back audio from the built-in mic OK.
Finally: I noticed that the Get Info window (from OSX Finder) shows Audacity.app as version 2.0.3.0, not 2.1.1. “About Audacity” has 2.1.1.
I hope this info is helpful…???
UNSUCCESSFUL LAUNCH CONSOLE INFO:
10/13/15 12:48:08.004 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x10000033.Audacity.sh[7734]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 2: No such file or directory: /Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity.sh
10/13/15 12:48:08.003 PM Finder[553]: spawn_via_launchd() failed, errno=111 label=[0x0-0xa80a80].net.sourceforge.audacity path=/Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity.sh flags=1 : LaunchApplicationClient.cp #963 LaunchApplicationWithSpawnViaLaunchD() q=com.apple.root.default-qos
10/13/15 12:48:08.003 PM Finder[553]: spawn_via_launchd() failed, errno=111 label=[0x0-0xa80a80].net.sourceforge.audacity path=/Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity.sh flags=1
10/13/15 12:48:37.073 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x10000034.Audacity.sh[7738]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 2: No such file or directory: /Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity.sh
10/13/15 12:48:37.072 PM Finder[553]: spawn_via_launchd() failed, errno=111 label=[0x0-0xa83a83].net.sourceforge.audacity path=/Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity.sh flags=1 : LaunchApplicationClient.cp #963 LaunchApplicationWithSpawnViaLaunchD() q=com.apple.root.default-qos
10/13/15 12:48:37.072 PM Finder[553]: spawn_via_launchd() failed, errno=111 label=[0x0-0xa83a83].net.sourceforge.audacity path=/Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity.sh flags=1
SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH CONSOLE INFO:
10/13/15 1:12:50.570 PM Audacity[7816]: WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.1 instead of 10.11.1. This is not a bug in Gestalt -- it is a documented limitation. Use NSProcessInfo's operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.
Call location:
10/13/15 1:12:50.572 PM Audacity[7816]: 0 CarbonCore 0x9ce41f1d ___Gestalt_SystemVersion_block_invoke + 135
10/13/15 1:12:50.572 PM Audacity[7816]: 1 libdispatch.dylib 0x97ed97e7 _dispatch_client_callout + 50
10/13/15 1:12:50.572 PM Audacity[7816]: 2 libdispatch.dylib 0x97ed96c3 dispatch_once_f + 78
10/13/15 1:12:50.572 PM Audacity[7816]: 3 libdispatch.dylib 0x97edaf4d dispatch_once + 31
10/13/15 1:12:50.573 PM Audacity[7816]: 4 CarbonCore 0x9cdbd9e1 _Gestalt_SystemVersion + 1047
10/13/15 1:12:50.573 PM Audacity[7816]: 5 CarbonCore 0x9cdbd18a Gestalt + 154
10/13/15 1:12:50.573 PM Audacity[7816]: 6 Audacity 0x00462ae2 _Z14UMAInitToolboxtb + 50
10/13/15 1:12:51.455 PM Audacity[7816]: 13:12:51.454 WARNING: 140: This application, or a library it uses, is using the deprecated Carbon Component Manager for hosting Audio Units. Support for this will be removed in a future release. Also, this makes the host incompatible with version 3 audio units. Please transition to the API's in AudioComponent.h.