Question / Help OBS 23.2.1 started crashing on start-up - browser related? HELP PLEASE!

[TFE]

OBS has always worked fine on my now aging (mid-2011) iMac - until today. Have been using 23.2.1 since it came out, again no problem until today. I tried adding a couple browser sources. Worked fine. But I think adding a third browser source crashed it, and continues to crash now on start-up. Have re-booted a number of times, and re-installed 23.2.1 – all to no avail. How do I rescue my OBS, ideally complete with scene collections and profiles, but I minus the browser scenes/sources that I think have mucked it up?

[Add: BTW, OBS works fine under another user name on the same iMac, but that has no scenes/sources set up.]

Crash log generated by the Mac (for sending to Apple) attached as a PDF.

Many thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Narcogen]

Delete (or copy to another location, then delete):

~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio
/Library/Application Support/obs-studio

You will lose your profiles and scenes, but if OBS is crashing on startup because of a problem in those scenes, either deleting these folders or temporarily removing them should fix it.

 

[TFE]

Thanks, Mr Narcogen! I removed just the scene folder from just /Library and OBS now starts up and works fine, minus the scenes. Is there a way to edit the scene folder (I'm almost certain it is my Scene 8 with the browser source in it that is causing OBS to crash) to delete Scene 8 and then reinstall the scene folder (and deleting the new scene folder created by OBS)? Or other? Thanks again!

[ADD: Now I've deleted the .json file and related .bak file for the problematic scene collection from the scene folder, reinstalled the scene folder, and I now have the other saved scene collections back, and OBS is working normally. But would be nice to edit the problematic scene collection so it works again, too. ]