my first post on the forum and already about a problem with Audacity or maybe MacOS?
As in the post topic. As soon as I try to export a file Audacity crashes and displays error raport. Same with retrieving projects that crashed. I click “restore” and Audacity crashes after a bit and it hangs on me. I have to force quit it.
Anyone else is experiencing this? Maybe there is a fix.
I’m leaning towards wiping out the entire hardrive and installing everything clean as I had some problems with High Sierra before. Safari and app store didn’t work. I did install fresh OS with recovery tool (didn’t format the drive). App Store and Safari work well but Audacity stoped working after that. Both my old version 2.1.something and the new 2.2.2. So it all started with recovery of the OS.
Trash these files:
audacity.cfg
pluginregistry.cfg
pluginsettings.cfg
That didn’t help unfortunately.
please tell us the exact wording of the error message.
Actually there is no error message. Audacity just crashes on me. On Export. Also on applying effects. And all I get is a popup window that a bug report has been generated.
Here is what the log says.
12:50:22: Audacity 2.2.2
12:50:22: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries...
12:50:22: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from default path, '/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib'.
12:50:22: Checking for monolithic avformat from '/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib'.
12:50:22: Błąd:dlopen(/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:50:22: Loading avutil from ''.
12:50:22: Błąd:dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:50:22: Loading avcodec from ''.
12:50:22: Błąd:dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:50:22: Loading avformat from '/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib'.
12:50:22: Błąd:dlopen(/Library/Application Support/audacity/libs/libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:50:22: Błąd:Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
12:50:22: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from legacy path, '/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib'.
12:50:22: Checking for monolithic avformat from '/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib'.
12:50:22: Błąd:dlopen(/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:50:22: Loading avutil from ''.
12:50:22: Błąd:dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:50:22: Loading avcodec from ''.
12:50:22: Błąd:dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:50:22: Loading avformat from '/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib'.
12:50:22: Błąd:dlopen(/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:50:22: Błąd:Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
12:50:22: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'libavformat.55.dylib'.
12:50:22: Checking for monolithic avformat from 'libavformat.55.dylib'.
12:50:22: Błąd:dlopen(libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:50:22: Loading avutil from ''.
12:50:22: Błąd:dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:50:22: Loading avcodec from ''.
12:50:22: Błąd:dlopen(.bundle, 1): image not found
12:50:22: Loading avformat from 'libavformat.55.dylib'.
12:50:22: Błąd:dlopen(libavformat.55.dylib, 1): image not found
12:50:22: Błąd:Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
12:50:22: Błąd:Nie udało się znaleźć zgodnych bibliotek FFmpeg.
12:51:00: File name is /Users/..........
/Desktop/recording process/160908_00.WAV
12:51:00: Mime type is *
12:51:00: Opening with libsndfile
12:51:01: Open(/Users/........./Desktop/recording process/160908_00.WAV) succeeded
The next time Audacity crashes and that crash report window appears, choose to look at the report (it may say Send to Apple, I can’t remember). In the Mac crash report it is usually “thread 0” that crashes. Copy the top of the crash report - to the end of thread 0 - and paste it into a message here.
The Audacity log merely says that FFmpeg failed to load, and the WAV file was opened successfully.
– Bill
I have the “Thread 0” listed many times in the report. There my be even over a hundred. The document is really, really long. I got Thread 0x2159df, then Thread 0x … and it goes and goes. It’s like sets of Thread 0 + Binary Images + Process and below another Thread 0 + binary images + proces and so forth… But it looks like there are 759 Threads 0 listed in the report. You wrote “to the end of thread 0”. But which one? Sorry, this might be a silly question but do you want me to paste them all? Or just the first one? Terribly sorry if I don’t get what you mean.
From the description, I think you have an unstable machine. There are supposed to be no conditions where the operating system starts crashing or failing
There are tools to check memory and the internal drive. I think you should be doing that before you wipe the machine and reinstall.
I need to look those tools up.
If the machine crashes during a re-install, you could trash the machine forever.
It’s sometimes an alarm bell when a poster is too familiar with the machine. Did you install a memory upgrade manually? Did you put a larger drive in? There are operating system restrictions. Some newer OS’s will not install over older hardware.
Do you ever actually close programs? Did you remember Photoshop was running?
One of the people at work used to get in trouble regularly by opening programs and then never closing them. The machine would slowly choke. But it didn’t crash.
Getting Photoshop to crash is good enough for me. Your machine is in trouble.
It’s Photoshop 5.1 on 10.13.3. It crashes on quit every time. It also requires Java to run. I don’t think my machine is in too much trouble. It’s just a very old version of Photoshop.
– Bill
I was able to fix it by formating the drive and fresh installing MacOS. A few apps were not working properly and and complete wipeout was necessary anyway.
or maybe MacOS?