When I open my Audacity (2.0.2.0) it bounces on the dock for a while, stops, and then my Macbook becomes incredibly slow and unresponsive and Audacity never gets the open application light beneath it.
How can I fix this? Does it have something to do with the 300+ plugins I have installed on my computer? Help!
Almost certainly. See here Missing features - Audacity Support . If you see a Mac crash report appear, please let us see it (as described in the link above).
The ultimate aim is simply not to load plug-ins until the user asks for them, and when the user does ask, load it in a separate process so that it can’t crash Audacity.
I installed version 2.0.3 and it won’t start. I followed the instructions you posted about the cfg file and still when i click on the icon, it bounces once on my dock and then nothing happens. I was able to open version 1.3.5d no problem. I am running OSX 10.6.8 on a MacBookPro.