Audacity not running after security update [SOLVED]

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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Hej, I have been using Audacity on my MacBook Air (El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G1217)) for a bit and without problems.
Wednesday night I made the security update provided by Apple and could not start Audacity since then.
I have

  • tried opening it while holding the “ctrl” key
  • de- and reinstalled it
    Both options did not produce any results. Upon click on the program, it very briefly appears on the dock and then shuts down again.

Any thoughts?

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Which version number of Audacity? Right-click or CTRL-click over Audacity.app, choose “Get Info” and look there for the number. If you don’t have 2.1.2, use that version from http://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac.

Is there any error message box when you try to launch Audacity? Is there any error message in the Console.app (in /Applications/Utilities)?

Reinstalling Audacity does not change its settings. To reset Audacity settings, open Finder, use the “Go” menu, choose “Go to Folder” and type

~/Library/Application Support/

Delete the “audacity” folder that you see there.

If Audacity still does not start, does the ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/ folder get recreated, and is there an “audacity.cfg” file inside that folder?



Gale

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Thank you Gale. Your post helped me resolve the issue - I could now start the program.

Just for your - or anybody elses - information:

  • I didn’t find any error message in Console.app. There was no error message box.
  • I dragged the Audacity folder from apps to delete and also deleted the folder in Application Support as per your description below
    plus I checked for any additional files and deleted those.
  • Then I reinstalled.

Thanks again,
Klemens