Audacity Forum

I wiped the disk and reinstalled a clean copy of OSX a few months ago. So the old one was "dirty?" Unstable? Did you back the machine out of Catalina? Nobody wants to talk about that. Where did you find High Sierra? It Is Said Apple will supply it if you know where to look. Do a serous backup befor...

To answer steve: Did you delete three files? (audacity.cfg, pluginregistry.cfg, and pluginsettings.cfg) There's only one cfg file in the folder by the time Audacity crashes, which is audacity.cfg; pluginregistry.cfg and pluginsettings.cfg aren't there. My assumption is that Audacity crashes before t...

Alright, I'll try to address these questions/requests in the order you posted them: It's a poor idea to dismiss possibilities out of hand before you establish what the cause actually is. Audacity tries to establish a location for buffers and cache. This is mine. Where is yours? Though I can't open A...

My system drive's got 228.48 GB available, and though I use cloud storage (iCloud Drive + Dropbox), they're not related to Audacity in any way - my applications folder lives on the system drive.

Hey all, I can't seem to get Audacity to boot after its initial installation on my Mac. I just keep getting the message, "Audacity Startup Failure: An unrecoverable error has occurred during startup". I've already tried resetting Audacity's settings (Reboot, then delete the *.cfg files in Applicatio...