Audacity Forum

Hi Steve, I saw your message after I posted. I must have been on the same wave. I got all of the information you posted on the Audacity website. Thank you for your hard work. I also found out you have to load all VST plugins into the Audacity plugins folder manually. There is no re-scanning for VST ...

Well, after doing a little digging around, I finally got Audacity to open by deleting the pluginregistry.cfg and pluginsettings.cfg files in the AppData\Roaming\Audacity section and then restarting. The FFmpeg Library didn't reinstall upon restart so I had to download them again. Also, none of my VS...

Hi Steve, that full reboot didn't work. I uninstalled and reinstalled again, and it still won't open. I also opened up the Session Data folder but there was nothing in there. There was a post on the Audacity website that suggested doing that.

Where is this 'lock file" located?

By the way, I have 2 other DAWS that work perfectly, so my computer is probably not the issue.

I have 2 other DAW's that open just fine. So it must be something that's only Audacity related.

Something else that's odd: after it doesn't open, if I click it again I get this message: "The system has detected that another copy of Audacity is running. Running two copies of Audacity may cause data loss or cause your system to crash. Use the New or Open commands in the currently running Audacit...

This happened today. It simply won't open. It was fine last week. So I uninstalled it and re-installed it, and it still won't open. I click on the icon and it shows the little box, them a ding sounds and it doesn't open. I tried this in run as administrator mode also, to no avail. I checked my devic...