Hello, I am a 13 year old person who is working on sound for games.
I have a Late-2011 Macbook Air with a 1TB hard drive plugged in with Yosemite installed.
I have Audacity 2.0.6 but recently, it stopped working because it said “Audacity is allready running”. I looked at the Activity Monitor, Force Quit screen, etc and see nothing.
Please give me a simple answer because I am 13 years old and I can’t understand what the heck is going on with audacity.
If you can help me, then thanks!
I am using a 2013 iMac with Yosemite installed, and it was working for two months with Yosemite until yesterday when I got the same message. I looked for the audacity.cfg file and it was not there. The Audacity folder was empty strangely. Perhaps could anyone offer a download of the config file so I could rectify the problem?
After force quitting Audacity, try the .cfg file I posted above. Just double-click the Audacity icon once to launch it.
Have you asked your teacher or parents for help? They can see your computer, but we can’t. You may want to ask them to do Go > Utilities > Disk Utility > Verify Disk and Repair Permissions.
Sorry but I don’t have many more ideas, beyond you try Verify Disk and Repair Permissions.
What language is the Mac running in?
If you have a Portable Settings folder in the folder where Audacity is, rename that folder so that Audacity uses the cfg file I posted.
Could you take a sreencast: How to record quick, easy screencast videos with Mac OS X showing me Activity Monitor with Audacity not listed, then showing what happens when you execute Audacity? You could upload the video to Dropbox or similar.
If that fails to launch please let us know and can you attach any reports from /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ that are from the same time as that attempted launch of the debug build.
That’s the command prompt. It’s a little scary but it’s not completely magic.
Go (top of the finder) > Utilities > Terminal.
It will look something like this.
Last login: Fri Mar 6 15:23:31 on console
johnny:~ koz$
johnny is my machine. You type ( in blue):
Last login: Fri Mar 6 15:23:31 on console
johnny:~ koz$ echo $TMPDIR
and then the Return key.
Last login: Fri Mar 6 15:23:31 on console
johnny:~ koz$ echo $TMPDIR
/var/folders/kn/2jn229yx2m7_kjgng3jndfc00000gn/T/
Then you type (in blue)
Last login: Fri Mar 6 15:23:31 on console
johnny:~ koz$ echo $TMPDIR
/var/folders/kn/2jn229yx2m7_kjgng3jndfc00000gn/T/
johnny:~ koz$
johnny:~ koz$
johnny:~ koz$ ls -la $TMPDIR
And press the Enter key.
That command calls for a long response. Pull the terminal window open so you can see it all. Drag-select all the text (like mine above) and paste it into an Audacity forum message. Also see graphic attachment. You can do it as a screen grab, too. Shift-Command-4 and draw a box around the window. Attach it to a message. Scroll down until you see Upload Attachment.
You may have heard that Apple OS-X is based on the Linux operating system. We have been unable to find this problem using the regular Mac tools, so this is how to look under the hood at the Linux system.
I haven’t had to speak Linux in a long time.
ls -la $TMPDIR
OK, that’s LIST, LONG version (don’t leave anything out), ALL (include everything), I don’t remember the dollar sign. System default folder? Temporary Directory is pretty simple.