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Re: Audacity does not start
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 5:29 am
by NEA1971
steve wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 9:33 pm
I don't suppose that you tried Audacity on the Mac before installing Blackhole?
unfortunately I didnt
Re: Audacity does not start
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 3:11 pm
by jivido
Hi,
I had the same issue, of Audacity not starting on Catalina.
After a lot of commandline launch attempts I checked the crash report, after I force quit the not-starting-Audacity, and found some lines about MIDI...
The audio/MIDI config app also hung.
Eventually I had to remove the MIDI drivers from ~/Library/Audio/MIDI\ Drivers/ and ../../Library/Audio/MIDI\ Drivers/
Re: Audacity does not start
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:36 pm
by NEA1971
jivido wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 3:11 pm
Eventually I had to remove the MIDI drivers from
~/Library/Audio/MIDI\ Drivers/ and
../../Library/Audio/MIDI\ Drivers/
under those links I had no content except some empty folders.
Anyway - I reinstalled catalina again and it works fine now, also with Blackhole installed.
Re: Audacity does not start
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 10:41 am
by Elzevir27
I'm having exactly the same issue. Apologies, I'm a complete novice. How do you reinstall Catalina?
Re: Audacity does not start
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 11:09 am
by steve
Elzevir27 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 10:41 am
I'm having exactly the same issue. Apologies, I'm a complete novice. How do you reinstall Catalina?
Have you updated to Audacity 2.4.2 or are you still using an old version of Audacity?
Re: Audacity does not start
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 12:51 pm
by Elzevir27
Hi, I tried re-installing Catalina, but it still doesn't work. I was using an old version on a previous computer - 2.3.3. After the re-installation the blank audacity.cfg folder that was there before has vanished. I've created a new one in text edit and no joy. It still doesn't work.