Help for Audacity on macOS.
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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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Gale Andrews
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by Gale Andrews » 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:
- 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
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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).
Gale
