Audacity Won't Start

[Craig Lanning]

Something has happened in the last couple of months that causes
audacity to not want to start.

If I type 'audacity audio-file.wav' in an attempt to get it to start
with an existing audio file. It just exits.

Is there some way that I can start it that will show me what it is
trying to do so I can see where it fails?  Any help figuring out what
is causing problems and how to fix it would be appreciated.

Craig Lanning

[Martin Cigorraga]

Hello Craig,

Could you please copy the output it produces when you launch the
application from the command line?

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 17:17 Craig Lanning  wrote:
> Something has happened in the last couple of months that causes
> audacity to not want to start.
>
> If I type 'audacity audio-file.wav' in an attempt to get it to start
> with an existing audio file. It just exits.
>
> Is there some way that I can start it that will show me what it is
> trying to do so I can see where it fails?  Any help figuring out what
> is causing problems and how to fix it would be appreciated.
>
> Craig Lanning
>
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[Andy Paterson]

On Sunday 16 August 2015 21:14:38 Martin Cigorraga wrote:
> Hello Craig,
>
> Could you please copy the output it produces when you launch the
> application from the command line?
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 17:17 Craig Lanning  wrote:
> > Something has happened in the last couple of months that causes
> > audacity to not want to start.
> >
> > If I type 'audacity audio-file.wav' in an attempt to get it to start
> > with an existing audio file. It just exits.
> >
> > Is there some way that I can start it that will show me what it is
> > trying to do so I can see where it fails?  Any help figuring out what
> > is causing problems and how to fix it would be appreciated.
> >
> > Craig Lanning
> >
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Hi Craig,
    I found this problem as well.
I cured it with a hammer - rm -rf ~/.audacity-data
But you may not want to do that!
Regards
Andy

[Martin Cigorraga]

Lol, 'with a hammer' - so true xD

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 19:40 Andrew R Paterson 
wrote:
> On Sunday 16 August 2015 21:14:38 Martin Cigorraga wrote:
> > Hello Craig,
> >
> > Could you please copy the output it produces when you launch the
> > application from the command line?
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 17:17 Craig Lanning
>
> wrote:
> > > Something has happened in the last couple of months that causes
> > > audacity to not want to start.
> > >
> > > If I type 'audacity audio-file.wav' in an attempt to get it to start
> > > with an existing audio file. It just exits.
> > >
> > > Is there some way that I can start it that will show me what it is
> > > trying to do so I can see where it fails?  Any help figuring out what
> > > is causing problems and how to fix it would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Craig Lanning
> > >
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> Hi Craig,
>         I found this problem as well.
> I cured it with a hammer - rm -rf ~/.audacity-data
> But you may not want to do that!
> Regards
> Andy
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[Craig Lanning]

Thanks for your answers.
Martin, there was no output.  I would type 'audacity file.wav' and it
would just return to the command prompt.
Andrew, Your suggestion worked fine.  I deleted the '.audacity-data'
directory and it then worked just fine.
Thanks to both of you for your help.
Craig
On Sun, 2015-08-16 at 22:45 +0000, Martin Cigorraga wrote:
> Lol, 'with a hammer' - so true xD
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 19:40 Andrew R Paterson <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 August 2015 21:14:38 Martin Cigorraga wrote:
> > > Hello Craig,
> > >
> > > Could you please copy the output it produces when you launch the
> > > application from the command line?
> > >
> > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 17:17 Craig Lanning <
> >
> > [e-mail]> wrote:
> > > > Something has happened in the last couple of months that causes
> > > > audacity to not want to start.
> > > >
> > > > If I type 'audacity audio-file.wav' in an attempt to get it to
> >
> > start
> > > > with an existing audio file. It just exits.
> > > >
> > > > Is there some way that I can start it that will show me what it
> >
> > is
> > > > trying to do so I can see where it fails?  Any help figuring
> >
> > out what
> > > > is causing problems and how to fix it would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Craig Lanning
> > > >
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> > Hi Craig,
> >         I found this problem as well.
> > I cured it with a hammer - rm -rf ~/.audacity-data
> > But you may not want to do that!
> > Regards
> > Andy
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