Can't start Audacity after force quit

Audacity 3 Help Forum macOS
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After doing a force quit following the spinning ball of death, I can’t start Audacity. I just get the spinning ball again.

Is there nothing I can do other than restarting my Mac?

Thanks for any help/idewas/suggestions

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Mac M1 RAM 16GB running macOS Sonoma v14.5, Audacity 3.7.0

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Delete the application Audacity, and the folder
~/Library/Application Support/audacity
(this is where all settings etc. are stored) and re-install it again - preferrably from a fresh download.

If this does not help, your OS may be damaged, your SSD may be full, or any other reason.

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Thanks for the reply, but I don’t want to do that. I have too many custom settings.

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This is a long shot.

Go to ~/Library/Application Support/audacity.

Open the audacity.cfg file in TextEdit.
Scroll all the way to the end of the file.
If there are any projects listed under the heading ActiveProjects, delete those lines.
Save the file.

Also inside the audacity folder is a SessionData folder. Delete anything in that folder. If you are not comfortable deleting those files (they are the files used for crash recovery), move them somewhere else (like the desktop) for the time being.

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Thanks, I’ll give this a try the next time it happens.