Audacity is already running...really??

[edmace]

Hi-I've tried unsuccessfully to fix this issue using suggestions from the Audacity Team yet I keep getting the above message. I'm using a OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6. I've used Audacity issue free for MANY years and recently tried upgrading to to Version 2.3.1 and continually get the same message. I even removed what I though was any remaining evidence of Audacity and related files but to no success. I love Audacity and would like to continue to use it but if this message continues, I'll be forced to look elsewhere and I really don't want to. Please let me know what I should do. Thanks in advance! Ed : /

[billw58]

Go to ~/Library/Application Support/audacity and look for a folder "Session Data". Delete any file you find therein.
-- Bill

[edmace]

Thank you thank you thank you Bill!!! Your suggestion worked!

[useydess]

where is the session data folder located on audacity

[waxcylinder]

where is the session data folder located on audacity

As Bill wrote in the second post in this thread

Go to ~/Library/Application Support/audacity and look for a folder "Session Data"

and don't miss out the tilde "~" character at the front of that string ...

WC

[dwatkinsss]

Mac OS 10.13.6 and Audacity 2.3.2 - also a couple of earlier versions were tried. I get a similar message - Audacit thinks 2 copies are open then shuts down. I checked the Library/Application support folder and Audacity was NOT there. What next ?
Just now I shut down the Mac completely then restarted. That didn't change anything. What next ?

[billw58]

I checked the Library/Application support folder and Audacity was NOT there.

Are you looking in /Library/Application Support or ~/Library/Application Support? Note the "~" character - that's the location you want.

-- Bill

[kozikowski]

You may be missing a step.

Desktop > Go > Go To Folder

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...then type in one of those addresses in that blue area.

Koz

[kozikowski]

If we didn't say so, sometimes Audacity will stop working and leave files by accident. The system sees those files and thinks Audacity is still working and won't start another one.

Koz

[dwatkinsss]

Thanks for the tips - but I just now searched on "library" using Spotlight. There were 5 "library" folder matches but no ~library. What's next? How do I get to "~" ?