Fix for Audacity 2.1.1 not launching
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:10 am
On a few machines, Audacity 2.1.1 may fail to launch without any warning message or crash report appearing. Audacity will not be running in Activity Monitor.
If this problem occurs:
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If this problem occurs:
- Open Finder, use Go > Go to Folder and type:
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~/Library/Application Support/audacity/ - In that "audacity" folder, open the "audacity.cfg" file in TextEdit.
- If you see a line under "Directories" that looks like
delete that line and try launching Audacity again.
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TempDir=/tmp/audacity1.2-<your user name> - Or you may try deleting audacity.cfg (note that this resets all your preferences).
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