Application Crash

Audacity 3 Help Forum macOS
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Audacity Application Crash.
iMac 27 inch, Mid 2011
MacOS 10.13.6
Audacity 2.3.3

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXEC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00007ffee843ff98
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Terminaiton Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Termination Process: exc handler [0]

To Reproduce:
Start Audacity, launch a window with “File->New”, launch a second window with “File->New”
Iconify one of the windows, click the yellow button in the upper left corner.
Bring that iconified window back too the desktop, Crash.

I have reported this crash several times to Apple. I don’t know when (if ever) you will see those reports.
Audacity 2.3.2 does not show this defect.

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I can’t reproduce this. Perhaps try resetting your preferences this forum post Resetting Audacity

Ah. My mid-2011 17" died last year. Had to upgrade to the 2019. You’ve got 9 years out of yours so far. Sometimes Apple makes good hardware.

– Bill