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Audacity is already running...really??
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2019 9:21 pm
by edmace
Hi-I've tried unsuccessfully to fix this issue using suggestions from the Audacity Team yet I keep getting the above message. I'm using a OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6. I've used Audacity issue free for MANY years and recently tried upgrading to to Version 2.3.1 and continually get the same message. I even removed what I though was any remaining evidence of Audacity and related files but to no success. I love Audacity and would like to continue to use it but if this message continues, I'll be forced to look elsewhere and I really don't want to. Please let me know what I should do. Thanks in advance! Ed : /
Re: Audacity is already running...really??
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:15 pm
by billw58
Go to ~/Library/Application Support/audacity and look for a folder "Session Data". Delete any file you find therein.
-- Bill
Re: Audacity is already running...really??
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 5:43 pm
by edmace
Thank you thank you thank you Bill!!! Your suggestion worked!
Re: Audacity is already running...really??
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 9:18 pm
by useydess
where is the session data folder located on audacity
Re: Audacity is already running...really??
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 10:00 pm
by waxcylinder
useydess wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 9:18 pm
where is the session data folder located on audacity
As Bill wrote in the second post in this thread
Go to ~/Library/Application Support/audacity and look for a folder "Session Data"
and don't miss out the tilde "
~" character at the front of that string ...
WC
Re: Audacity is already running...really??
Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 4:14 pm
by dwatkinsss
Mac OS 10.13.6 and Audacity 2.3.2 - also a couple of earlier versions were tried. I get a similar message - Audacit thinks 2 copies are open then shuts down. I checked the Library/Application support folder and Audacity was NOT there. What next ?
Just now I shut down the Mac completely then restarted. That didn't change anything. What next ?
Re: Audacity is already running...really??
Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 5:59 pm
by billw58
dwatkinsss wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 4:14 pm
I checked the Library/Application support folder and Audacity was NOT there.
Are you looking in
/Library/Application Support or
~/Library/Application Support? Note the
"~" character - that's the location you want.
-- Bill
Re: Audacity is already running...really??
Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 6:15 pm
by kozikowski
You may be missing a step.
Desktop > Go > Go To Folder
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...then type in one of those addresses in that blue area.
Koz
Re: Audacity is already running...really??
Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 6:19 pm
by kozikowski
If we didn't say so, sometimes Audacity will stop working and leave files by accident. The system sees those files and thinks Audacity is still working and won't start another one.
Koz
Re: Audacity is already running...really??
Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 6:34 pm
by dwatkinsss
Thanks for the tips - but I just now searched on "library" using Spotlight. There were 5 "library" folder matches but no ~library. What's next? How do I get to "~" ?