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Makes sense. Well, not really but that is the culprit.
Thanks Bill!

It was a Waveshell AU

I did that and then another plugin came up and so I moved that onto the desktop and lo and behold the damn thing opened!
Why would they cause problems with this program and not others?
Bill, I owe you a beer!

Bill, Here is the top part of it. Process: Audacity [356] Path: /Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity Identifier: net.sourceforge.audacity Version: 2.0.0.0 (2.0.0.0) Code Type: X86 (Native) Parent Process: sh [353] Date/Time: 2012-06-28 01:14:07.376 -0400 OS Version: Mac OS X 1...

Strange indeed and I am stumped. I guess othersare as well. I did trash the plugins.cfg, re-copied the code for audacity.cfg, and then opened Audacity. It scanned other plugins on my system, gave me the spinning wheel of death, and then quit. Same as before. Is there somewhere else on my computer I ...

Exactly as that, yes Bill.

No avail. I did create a text file and pasted the code into and saved it in the folder as listed. After the first try I then moved the plugin.cfg onto the desktop and tried again. This time it at least began to scan vst plugins that I have. It appeared as if it would work since Audacity appeared in ...

I do not have an earlier version. No external or thumb drives are being used. I would save it to a partition on my drive if I could get it to open. That is my usual process. It was installed properly, yes. I read the wiki page you linked and it said to open audacity.cfg. However. I see that the file...

Hello Everyone, I just downloaded the latest version of Audacity, 2.0.0.0, and it will not open. I have trashed it and reinstalled it and get the same thing. At first I got the rainbow spinning wheel of death but now the icon just bounces in the dock and does not open. When I look at the programs ru...