I've been running audacity for a long time on a Macbook pro using High Sierra without problems but today, after downloading some system upgrades, I can't run Audacity. I get a window popping up which says there is another instance already running and that I should use it to open files. BUT there is no other version running.
Even after I Force Quit what shows in the system monitor, then restart Audacity, this message reappears, and again there is an icon showing it running in the system monitor. I force quit that, try to restart and the same thing occurs. How do I get this up and running again?
Another instance of Audacity running error
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This forum is for Audacity on macOS 10.4 and later.Please state which version of macOS you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Audacity menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
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billw58
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Re: Another instance of Audacity running error
Have you tried restarting the Mac?
If that doesn't work, go to ~/Library/Application Support/audacity and trash the contents of the "SessionData" folder.
-- Bill
If that doesn't work, go to ~/Library/Application Support/audacity and trash the contents of the "SessionData" folder.
-- Bill
Re: Another instance of Audacity running error
Thanks Bill. Restarting didn/t work and I even reinstalled Audacity without any improvement, but erasing the contents of the session contents folder did the trick.