"The application "Audacity" can't be opened" OS X 10.11.2

[Gale_Andrews]

@rachalmers

~/Library/Application Support/audacity
on mine doesn’t contain an audacity.cfg file at all? In fact, on first install, there was no ‘audacity’ directory in the Library… directory. I actually had to create the audacity directory by hand so I could install the ffmpeg plugin.

If Audacity could not launch and you had not used Audacity before, then audacity.cfg might not get created. But as rockford.j.fender said, he has used 2.0.3 before so he will have an audacity.cfg file.

And you (rachalmers) will have an audacity.cfg in ~/Library/Application Support/audacity - unless you have created a “Portable Settings” folder in the folder Audacity runs from.

@rachalmers

I’d be surprised if Audacity started from a .sh file ?

The Audacity target used to be a shell script, to aid detection of LAME and FFmpeg: Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting..

Audacity no longer uses that script, but probably because of an old entry in audacity.cfg, Audacity 2.1.1 is looking in vain for it.

Therefore the solution is to trash or edit audacity.cfg as per Fix for Audacity 2.1.1 not launching or use 2.1.2 which has a fix that makes trashing or editing audacity.cfg un-necessary.


Gale