Acorn hangs at startup

Acorn
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After opening a number of files at once, Acorn 7 became unresponsive. So after a few minutes of unresponsiveness, I force quit it.

Now when I try to launch Acorn, it is immediately unresponsive and I never see any images or UI or menu bar appear. In the Dock control-click context menu for Acorn, I see the names of the files I had open before. So my interpretation is that something about one of these files is causing Acorn to crash, and Acorn is trying to open these files at startup.

What I really need right now is a way to restart with a clean slate, make Acorn forget the files I had open. rm -rf’ing “~/Library/Application Support/Acorn” doesn’t do it nor does trashing the app, downloading and restarting a new binary. Any ideas?

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You’ll want to do rm -rf ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.flyingmeat.Acorn7.savedState

Let me know if that works or not!

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I didn’t get a chance to try this, but restarting my Mac seemed to clear everything up.

Thanks for the tip!

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I’m glad it worked out regardless. Let me know if it happens again!

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@ccgus I am experiencing a similar issue. As soon as I start Acorn, the program completely freezes, forcing me to terminate it. I have already tried uninstalling Acorn completely and then reinstalling it, but the problem persists. What else can I do?

I have already followed the suggestion to execute rm -rf ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.flyingmeat.Acorn7.savedState. Unfortunately, this had no effect.

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@konfluenzpunkt What version specifically of Acorn are you using?

Here’s something that’ll help me track it down. Open up Activity Monitor, and then open up Acorn. Acorn will then show up in the list in Activity Monitor. Select Acorn in the list, and then use the View ▸ Sample Process menu item. That’ll create a little report as to what Acorn is doing, and you can save and send that to support@flyingmeat.com. I’ll be able to see what’s going on with it there.