OBS no longer works/opens

[ggthepianoman]

Hi running OBS successfully for 2 years on MacMini M1. Up to date with Monterey 12.6 OBS latest version installed. As of 4 days ago, OBS will no longer open so I cannot livestream. It just says 'quit unexpectedly' (and produces a huge error log) Have deleted/reinstalled blah blah. Attach a PDF of the error log here - help please! need to livestream at weekend/asap!! Thank you from a frustrated thickie !!!

 

[thomaslfessler]

It looks like OBS is in a loop loading images. Eventually it crashes on your Mac Mini. Try downloading and replacing your OBS application. Worst case, it could be your scene collection file that's causing the problem. If you have time machine setup, restore the file to the last time you know it was working.

 

[ggthepianoman]

Hello Thomas - MANY thanks for the insight into what may be going on. Sadly I do not have a time machine. I have already tried deleting and reinstalling OBS, but I am guessing that 'somewhere' there are a load of files (such as the 900 ish scenes) I had set up. It's all very mysterious but I appreciate your input. Many thanks GG

 

[rolandwartenberg]

Hi running OBS successfully for 2 years on MacMini M1. Up to date with Monterey 12.6 OBS latest version installed. As of 4 days ago, OBS will no longer open so I cannot livestream. It just says 'quit unexpectedly' (and produces a huge error log) Have deleted/reinstalled blah blah. Attach a PDF of the error log here - help please! need to livestream at weekend/asap!! Thank you from a frustrated thickie !!!

Hi, not really sure if this helps but when the problem is caused by whatever setup or files in your current account you can try to create a new additional account on macOS (I always have one active as test/staging environment) and see if the same error comes up again. can't promise that this solves your problem but you can give it a try. Best, Roland P.S.: as you write in another reply that you don't have a time machine backup -> STRONGLY recommended !!! I have this situation from time to time where an app is not working anymore (or is behaving differently than it used to). Restoring the former version (the last one which worked successfully) takes only a couple of minutes but saves you a lot of trouble and headache.

 

[keylevel]

I had this in the past, and I think it was caused by an issue in a scene file that was "fixed" by removing them.

It might be worth removing yours to see if that helps. They are under ~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/basic. I normally just rename the obs-studio folder to something like obs-studio-old as a quick way of seeing if it's a wider settings / configuration issue, and work from there to try and isolate which bit is messed up.