After a crash: Ardour does not start

#1

After a crash: Ardour does not start bzw crashes during the start-up process.

What can I do?

#2

Start it from the command line and post the error messages here.

#3

I restarted the computer twice and then opened another project (which didn’t work at first either). Then it suddenly worked again.

But for the next time: How do I start Ardour via the command line (Mac)?

#4

Ah macOS.

Running a graphical app from a Terminal will not produce any output there, because apple redirects all standard output, and error output to the console.

You can find the logs in ~/Library/Preferences/Ardour8/*log

That is a hidden folder, so you need to use Apple’s Finder: Menu > Go > Go to Folder type ~/Library. Then navigate to Preferences, Ardour8 and find stdout.log and stderr.log.

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Open a Terminal window (search for it in spotlight). then run

ARDOUR_BUNDLED=1 /Applications/Ardour8.app/Contents/MacOS/Ardour8