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Title: Audacity won't open... Anyone know what this pop up means? (pic inside)
Post by: justink on May 05, 2019, 04:52:38 PM

https://imgur.com/a/lWOLqnu

Title: Re: Audacity won't open... Anyone know what this pop up means? (pic inside)
Post by: daspyknows on May 05, 2019, 05:52:09 PM

reboot and try again.

Title: Re: Audacity won't open... Anyone know what this pop up means? (pic inside)
Post by: justink on May 05, 2019, 07:53:05 PM

Quote from: daspyknows on May 05, 2019, 05:52:09 PM

reboot and try again.

i did. 

also uninstalled and re-installed 2.1.1 and 2.3.1.  Same results.  so weird.

Title: Re: Audacity won't open... Anyone know what this pop up means? (pic inside)
Post by: vanark on May 05, 2019, 10:33:33 PM

according to google, it may be a locked file from an incomplete shutdown

https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=351390#p351390

Title: Re: Audacity won't open... Anyone know what this pop up means? (pic inside)
Post by: justink on May 05, 2019, 10:38:57 PM

Quote from: vanark on May 05, 2019, 10:33:33 PM

according to google, it may be a locked file from an incomplete shutdown

https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=351390#p351390

i followed that path but did not find and "session data".  this is weird.

Title: Re: Audacity won't open... Anyone know what this pop up means? (pic inside)
Post by: vanark on May 05, 2019, 10:51:38 PM

Saw another post that said something about a bad line in the config file.

Title: Re: Audacity won't open... Anyone know what this pop up means? (pic inside)
Post by: justink on May 05, 2019, 11:01:55 PM

i used an app cleaner to uninstall everything.  reinstalled and it worked. had to reinstall my plugins though.