Bug Report OBS crashes immediately upon startup

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acurazine96

New Member
Hi guys - when I first downloaded OBS MP for my Mac (running OS X 10.9) a few months back, it'd always crash immediately upon startup. I asked in the live chat and the admin dude there said he'd never seen an error report like the one I showed before. I ended up completely wiping my computer and reinstalling my OS from scratch, and that fixed the issue.

A bit later I downloaded OS X 10.10 Yosemite, continued to run 0.8.1 without issue. Now yesterday I downloaded 0.8.2, and OBS would crash immediately upon opening every single time. I restarted my computer, deleted and reinstalled OBS entirely, etc. Nothing helped. I tried downgrading to 0.8.1 again, and now it won't open for me either. I can't figure out what's causing this issue and would really appreciate some help! Here's my error code from 0.8.1 on OS X 10.10.2 on my 2011 Macbook Air:

http://pastebin.com/PGXgnZgs

Thanks so much in advance if anybody has any tips to get me up and running again!

Edit: So after doing a bit more digging through the forums I found a comment which helped fix my issue! If anyone else has this issue, try opening up Finder, pressing Command-Shift-G, then typing in the following:

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

Then delete the scenes.json file and try opening OBS again! I can't confirm that it won't mess with your scenes or anything (as I'd already reinstalled OBS and wiped mine), but it definitely got the application opening again.
 
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dodgepong

dodgepong

Administrator
Community Helper
Actually, I was hoping you wouldn't delete that file, because I wanted to be able to take a look at it to find out why it's crashing for so many people. :/
 
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acurazine96

New Member
Dang, I'm sorry! If it ever happens again I'll make sure to wait for further instruction so I can help you guys try to figure it out. It's happened to me twice now, so decent chance it'll happen again I suppose.
 
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