Audacity stopped working

Please note, Audacity 2.0.5 and 2.0.6 do not officially support Yosemite.

Make sure in Force Quit that Audacity isn’t running.

Open Finder, Go > Go to Folder and type:

~/Library/Application Support/audacity/

Open audacity.cfg in TextEdit. Select all the text and delete it. Then type the following at the top of the file:

NewPrefsInitialized=1

Save audacity.cfg and restart Audacity.

If that does not work then perhaps some plugin you added is causing a problem. If so, make sure Audacity isn’t running, then edit audacity.cfg so it shows this:

NewPrefsInitialized=1
[AudioUnits]
Enable=0
GUI=0
[VST]
Enable=0
GUI=0
Rescan=0

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