Nyquist does not work after update [SOLVED]

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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Hi all,
I use Audacity and a couple of plugins since several years. Last version installed was 2.0.0.
My Mac is running Version 10.12.2 (Sierra - latest release)

First I want to highlight that I do not start Audacity from dmg-file - just to prevent unnecessary questions.

After upgrading I recognized that several plugins were not available (nyquist prompt eg) or could not be activated. Because of this I decided to delete all configurationfiles and the entire installation of audacity and reinstall everything - without success.
If I start my fresh audacity intallation from Launchpad the nyquist prompt is not part of my effect menu. If I switch to Add/Remove Plugins there is no entry for that.
The next thing I tried was starting the app from a shell -with a different result. All missed plugins were available or I was able to activate them. When I start from a shell, the gui is english, if I start audacity from Launchpad the gui starts in my local language - german.

After activating the plugins from a shell started audacity they are available in a launchpad started audacity as well, but do not work. If I now start eg nyquist prompt an error will be loged:

Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 2): image not found


Here are all logentries after starting from launchpad:

12:25:21: Audacity 2.1.2
12:25:21: Warnung: Critical Nyquist files could not be found. Nyquist effects will not work.
12:25:22: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries…
12:25:22: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from default path, ‘/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avutil from ‘’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avcodec from ‘’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avformat from ‘/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Fehler: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
12:25:22: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from legacy path, ‘/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avutil from ‘’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avcodec from ‘’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avformat from ‘/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Fehler: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
12:25:22: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is ‘libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avutil from ‘’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avcodec from ‘’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Loading avformat from ‘libavformat.55.dylib’.
12:25:22: Fehler: dlopen(libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:25:22: Fehler: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
12:25:22: Fehler: Es konnten keine passenden FFmpeg-Bibliotheken gefunden werden.
12:25:27: File name is .mp3
12:25:27: Mime type is *
12:25:27: Opening with libsndfile
12:25:27: Opening with libmad
12:25:27: Open() succeeded
12:25:32: Fehler: dlopen(.bundle, 2): image not found


Anyone any ideas? I hope so…


Thanks in advance

Matthias

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Hi all,
in addition I want to highlight that to start from a shell allways works, a start from launchpad not. I also tried a fresh installation on a fresh Mac OS (ie. a virtual machine running a fresh installation of Mac OS X 10.12.2 without any other programs at all - just those coming with the os) and the result was the same.

I was only successful when starting audacity directly from a shell. I think the installation folder is somehow broken. I checked the file permissions and ajusted this and that - without success (of course I documented it…).

I think it is a better idea to go to our rehearsal room and play guitar than sitting here and trying to fix this now.

Hope someone has any idea

Matthias

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Thanks. Extra Gatekeeper security was introduced in macOS 10.12.1 which we believe is the cause of the problem. We are working on this now for the upcoming 2.1.3 release. It is better now on most machines, but not fully working on all.

To fix it, open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app. Copy the below text then paste it into the terminal:

sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Audacity/

Hit ENTER to send the command. Type the admin password when prompted. You won’t see the password while typing it, but hit ENTER when you have finished typing it.

Then reboot.

If Audacity is installed somewhere else than /Applications/Audacity, change the path to reflect where the Audacity folder is.


Gale

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So I look forward to the next release with a lot of hope… :wink:

Works like a charm without a reboot. Thank you very much.

I wish you all a happy new year.

Matthias