Unable To Load Plug-in

[Mephostopholes]

On start up of Audacity 2.0 I get this message that reads "Temporary Message Box Unable to load plug-in Please install the plug-in again." I have no idea what plug-in this refers to but if I click "OK" in the box Audacity starts up and runs without a problem, except that most times when I shut it down it gives me an error message that states the program quit unexpectedly. Does anyone have a solution to this problem? As far as I know it's just an annoyance and has no affect on the programs operation. I am using an IMac 10 os x 10.6.8.

[billw58]

Somewhere on your system you have a plug-in that either needs authorization, or is incompatible with Audacity.

See the bottom of this page: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Effect_Menu
for where VST and Audio Unit effects are stored on Mac. You probably need to pull one of them out.

-- Bill

[alexfsu]

I'm having this problem too, what do you mean by pulling them out. like removing plugins from my "components" folder?

using Lion 10.7 on Macbook Pro late 2011

[Mephostopholes]

Ok..... Any ideas on how to find the problem plug-in? There are quite a few AU plug-ins and scanning over them I see nothing obvious. I've even tried loading an audio track and going down the list of effects to see if there are any that won't work, but again.... nothing.

[billw58]

Have a look at this page:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/User: ... ces_on_Mac
At the bottom is a strategy for finding incompatible plugins.

-- Bill

[Mephostopholes]

Thank you Bill. Your last suggestion did the trick. Sometimes I overlook the simple things, like process of elimination. I still get a message occasionally when closing stating that Audacity quit unexpectedly but it's not bothering me half as bad as the start up message. Thanks again for your help.