Audacity 2.1.1 won't launch OSX 10.10.5

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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Hi, I have read all the threads on launching issues of Audacity and none of the tips or suggestions worked. I have used Audacity for 7 years now. 2.1.1. won’t launch, 2.1.0. will launch no problem. There is no .cfg. I have iMac 20-inch Early 2009, plenty of disk space, no app security launch issues, etc. the icon on the doc just bounces and then nothing. 2.1.0. will launch fine, but as soon as I remove 2.1.0. and launch the 2.1.1. dmg, it installs, but the app doesn’t ever want to launch.

I am seeing this error in the console:

11:04:46 AM Audacity:
WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.5 instead of 10.10.5. Use NSProcessInfo’s operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.

Let me know what I can do to fix this. Otherwise will keep running 2.1.0 for the moment.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/MCEdit/comments/2p66lu/osx_yosemite_bug_gestaltsystemversion_is_not/

Apparently, we stepped into a semi-known Yosemite bug.

Koz

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If there was really no audacity.cfg, that would probably solve the problem. Have you read Fix for Audacity 2.1.1 not launching carefully? Look for audacity.cfg in your user Library, not the system Library:

~/Library/Application Support/audacity/

Gale

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That is not the cause of Audacity not launching and it’s our very minor bug, not Yosemite’s: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/2-1-1-not-working-on-10-10-5/39107/3


Gale

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I created a .cfg and put it in a folder. It made no difference and did not launch :frowning:.

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When I try to launch Audacity 2.1.1 here is the system log messages:

9/8/15 10:37:06.843 PM CoreServicesUIAgent[304]: Error -60005 creating authorization
9/8/15 10:37:12.000 PM kernel[0]: CoreServicesUIAg[304] Unable to quarantine: 93
9/8/15 10:37:12.209 PM CoreServicesUIAgent[304]: error -1427 while setting quarantine data
9/8/15 10:37:12.336 PM Audacity[2441]: WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.5 instead of 10.10.5. Use NSProcessInfo's operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.
Call location:
9/8/15 10:37:12.337 PM Audacity[2441]: 0   CarbonCore                          0x969d1291 ___Gestalt_SystemVersion_block_invoke + 135
9/8/15 10:37:12.337 PM Audacity[2441]: 1   libdispatch.dylib                   0x99b100b5 dispatch_once_f + 251
9/8/15 10:37:12.337 PM Audacity[2441]: 2   libdispatch.dylib                   0x99b110d8 dispatch_once + 31
9/8/15 10:37:12.337 PM Audacity[2441]: 3   CarbonCore                          0x9694a69d _Gestalt_SystemVersion + 1050
9/8/15 10:37:12.337 PM Audacity[2441]: 4   CarbonCore                          0x969497c0 Gestalt + 150
9/8/15 10:37:12.337 PM Audacity[2441]: 5   Audacity                            0x00462ae2 _Z14UMAInitToolboxtb + 50
9/8/15 10:37:12.337 PM Audacity[2441]: 6   Audacity                            0x0046843c _ZN5wxApp10InitializeERiPPw + 44
9/8/15 10:37:33.709 PM mdworker[2449]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)" UserInfo=0x7fca83474af0 {SecCSArchitecture=ppc}
9/8/15 10:37:33.709 PM mdworker[2448]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)" UserInfo=0x7fcb4a481520 {SecCSArchitecture=ppc}

I do have Intel Mac not PPC …

Thanks!

Money

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Update on the issue … okay after finding the ~/Library/…/audacity/audacity.cfg that was hidden on my last OSX update, I deleted the TempDir= parameter value. Audacity then loaded … here’s what my audacity.cfg looked like when I cleared out the TempDir= parameter value:

Version=2.0.6
PrefsVersion=1.1.1r1
SnapTo=1
DefaultOpenPath=/Users/money/Desktop/Production_2015_Trance
DefaultOpenType=All files
LastOpenType=
ShowSelectionLength=1
SelectionFormat=seconds
NewImportingSession=1
FrequencySelectionFormatName=Hz
LogFrequencySelectionFormatName=octaves
BandwidthSelectionFormatName=octaves
[Version]
Major=2
Minor=1
Micro=1
[Directories]
TempDir=
PresetsDir=/Users/money/Library/Application Support/audacity/presets
[AudioIO]
RecordingDevice=USB Audio CODEC
Host=Core Audio
PlaybackDevice=Built-in Output
RecordChannels=2
PlaybackSource=
RecordingSourceIndex=0
RecordingSource=
Duplex=1
EffectsPreviewLen=6
CutPreviewBeforeLen=2

The Library folder is hidden with an OSX update. If you go to your /Users/{yournamehere} folder and then click the gear dropdown under the folder name on the top of the panel, select Show View Options on the menu; then, on the panel that displays at the bottom there is a “show Library Folder” checkbox. You can check that to expose the hidden Library folder to find the Application Support folder that has the audacity folder and cfgs in it!

I hope this helps someone else !!

Thanks for your support Gale!

:=D Money

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Or more simply, you could use Go > Go to Folder as is written on https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/fix-for-audacity-2-1-1-not-launching/39157/1 :wink:

Or you could use a terminal command to show all hidden files in Mac OS X.


Gale