"Audacity is already running"

[Gale_Andrews]

@ennabaum

MAC OS X 10.10.2
Audacity 2.0.6
Used the .dmg installer

Even though this has been posted before, I’m not very technically savvy at code. I’ve tried entering people’s code responses from earlier resolved questions into terminal, but with no success.

Try these steps:

Audacity is Already Running glitch

Force Quit Audacity. Open Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder and type: ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/ Open the audacity.cfg file in TextEdit and look for the line that says [Directories]. Underneath that line, look what it says for “TempDir”. Use Go to Folder to open that TempDir location. Look for a folder called audacity-, for example if your user name on the computer is doaler, look for the audacity-doaler folder. Delete that folder. That should solve the problem. Gale

@ennabaum

I do know that after Audacity crashed and froze my computer, I was forced to shut down my computer.

That is rare on Macs and you should take it very seriously, although it is not Audacity that crashes your computer because it does not have kernel privileges to do that.

I would recommend to begin with opening Finder then use the Go > Utilities menu to open Disk Utility. Select your system drive and Verify Disk and then when that’s done, Repair Permissions.


Gale