Cannot update OBS - Waiting for OBS to exit ...

[video.zionferg]

I'm trying to update OBS to OBS Studio 26.0.2. OBS closes and a window pops up with a progress bar that shows the message "Waiting for OBS to exit ..." Another thread suggested deleting the OBS folder in %temp% but there is no OBS folder.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

 

[bvZed]

Not exactly the same, but I've had instances where I would get a popup that said OBS was still running when I thought it wasn't, i.e. I had shut it down. Check in the Task Manager, scroll down and you may find stray OBS items under Background Processes that you can "End Task".

 

[Sidetrackt_Cessions]

Same thing is happening right now for me. Says this:

 

[oneiropagides]

Same here! Waiting for OBS to exit... but it never does. Anyone found a solution?

 

[Proxxxa]

I'm trying to update OBS to OBS Studio 26.0.2. OBS closes and a window pops up with a progress bar that shows the message "Waiting for OBS to exit ..." Another thread suggested deleting the OBS folder in %temp% but there is no OBS folder.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

I had the same thing and the fix is you have to go to task manager and press "O", It will automatically show you all the process running with O in the starting. By that I found that some process called "obs64" was running. I turned it off and the update has started from the obs updater. Hope it helps <3

 

[TheBoxyBear]

You can force obs to close by opening the commands prompt (search cmd in the start menu) and using the command "taskkill /f /im obs64.exe". For some reason it wouldn't appear in task manager but it did using the tasklist command that's how I got the name of the process. It might be called obs32.exe if running the 32-bit version.

 

[raghulan]

its because OBS studio is not shutdown properly, go to task manager and find OBS studio, not OBS updates and kill that process then the download will resume.