Running two copies of Audacity simultaneously may cause data loss or may cause your system to crash. The system has detected that another copy of Audacity is running. If you get the following error message when trying to launch Audacity it is likely that an old Audacity 'lock file' is still present.Īudacity is already running. Mac: 'Audacity is already running' - error message If you want to remove your settings as well, delete Audacity's folder for application data ( ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/). Uninstallation retains your Audacity settings in case you want to install Audacity again at some time in the future. If you are uninstalling older Audacity versions prior to 2.1.3, drag the entire folder containing Audacity to Trash.

Quit Audacity then drag Audacity.app to Trash. If you want to remove your settings as well, delete Audacity's folder for application data whose location is given here. This will replace the uninstall files with good copies, then you can run the uninstaller again. Install Audacity to the same location you installed it to before (which happens by default). If you still cannot uninstall Audacity, download the installer again. This requires 'unins000.dat' (or similar) to be present in the installation folder. If the Control Panel cannot uninstall Audacity, open the folder in which you installed Audacity and double-click 'unins000.exe' (this file might have other numbers in the name). Make sure you quit Audacity before uninstalling, or you will receive errors that some files could not be removed. Select 'Audacity' from the list and follow the instructions which will launch the Audacity uninstall application.

WindowsĪudacity can be uninstalled by choosing ' Add/Remove Programs' or ' Uninstall a application' in the Windows Control Panel.

Please see the Windows installation page. Note that there is no need to uninstall your previous Audacity version before updating to current Audacity, unless you are updating from 1.3.x Beta.

Audacity software installation