Audacity is Already Running glitch

[DillonUpton]

The mac is running in English, so here is a youtube video of what you requested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-JAuP ... e=youtu.be

[Gale Andrews]

The mac is running in English, so here is a youtube video of what you requested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-JAuP ... e=youtu.be

Thanks for the video.

Have you done Verify Disk and Repair Permissions?

Can you think of any system changes you made immediately prior to this problem occurring? Did you update iTunes or Yosemite? Install new apps?

Make sure no other users are running Audacity.

Then can you try this latest debug build of Audacity 2.1.0-alpha http://www.audacity.homerow.net/index.p ... 5-04.15%2F ?

If that fails to launch please let us know and can you attach any reports from /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ that are from the same time as that attempted launch of the debug build.

Thanks for your patience.


Gale

[Leland]

Can one of you open the Terminal and issue these commands?

echo $TMPDIR

That will show us what the temporary directory on your machine is.

Then show us what is in that directory:

ls -la $TMPDIR

Thanks much,

Leland

[Phil25]

I've tried everything, and nothing is working

[Leland]

I've tried everything, and nothing is working

If you can post the output from the commands listed in:

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 10#p267610

It might help us to point you in the right direction.

Leland

[kozikowski]

That's the command prompt. It's a little scary but it's not completely magic.

Go (top of the finder) > Utilities > Terminal.

It will look something like this.

Last login: Fri Mar 6 15:23:31 on console
johnny:~ koz$

johnny is my machine. You type ( in blue):

Last login: Fri Mar 6 15:23:31 on console
johnny:~ koz$ echo $TMPDIR

and then the Return key.

Last login: Fri Mar 6 15:23:31 on console
johnny:~ koz$ echo $TMPDIR
/var/folders/kn/2jn229yx2m7_kjgng3jndfc00000gn/T/

Then you type (in blue)

Last login: Fri Mar 6 15:23:31 on console
johnny:~ koz$ echo $TMPDIR
/var/folders/kn/2jn229yx2m7_kjgng3jndfc00000gn/T/
johnny:~ koz$
johnny:~ koz$
johnny:~ koz$ ls -la $TMPDIR

And press the Enter key.

That command calls for a long response. Pull the terminal window open so you can see it all. Drag-select all the text (like mine above) and paste it into an Audacity forum message. Also see graphic attachment. You can do it as a screen grab, too. Shift-Command-4 and draw a box around the window. Attach it to a message. Scroll down until you see Upload Attachment.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49&t=64936

This problem has been a very serious one for the Audacity Team and if you can do this it will make everybody's day a little brighter Thanks.

Koz

[kozikowski]

You may have heard that Apple OS-X is based on the Linux operating system. We have been unable to find this problem using the regular Mac tools, so this is how to look under the hood at the Linux system.

I haven't had to speak Linux in a long time.

ls -la $TMPDIR

OK, that's LIST, LONG version (don't leave anything out), ALL (include everything), I don't remember the dollar sign. System default folder? Temporary Directory is pretty simple.

Koz

[doaler4sback]

Well, I kinda fixed it around feb, i forgot how i did it, but recently the glitch strikes again.

[Gale Andrews]

Well, I kinda fixed it around feb, i forgot how i did it, but recently the glitch strikes again.

Force Quit Audacity.

Open Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder and type:

Code: Select all

~/Library/Application Support/audacity/ 

Open the audacity.cfg file in TextEdit and look for the line that says [Directories]. Underneath that line, look what it says for "TempDir".

Use Go to Folder to open that TempDir location.

Look for a folder called audacity-<your user name>, for example if your user name on the computer is doaler, look for the audacity-doaler folder. Delete that folder.

That should solve the problem.

Gale

[doaler4sback]

Well, I kinda fixed it around feb, i forgot how i did it, but recently the glitch strikes again.

Force Quit Audacity.

Open Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder and type:

Code: Select all

~/Library/Application Support/audacity/ 

Open the audacity.cfg file in TextEdit and look for the line that says [Directories]. Underneath that line, look what it says for "TempDir".

Use Go to Folder to open that TempDir location.

Look for a folder called audacity-<your user name>, for example if your user name on the computer is doaler, look for the audacity-doaler folder. Delete that folder.

That should solve the problem.

Gale

Did that, it works!
Thanks Gale!

Charlie (doaler4sback)