# Sonic Pi not booting on MacOS Sonoma

**URL:** <https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sonic-pi-not-booting-on-macos-sonoma/8697>\
**Category:** Support, Help & Resources\
**Created:** [March 8, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sonic-pi-not-booting-on-macos-sonoma/8697 "2024-03-08T18:40:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gisbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Gisbert](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/Gisbert)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sonic-pi-not-booting-on-macos-sonoma/8697/1 "2024-03-08T18:40:13Z")

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Since updating my Macbook to Sonoma Sonic Pi does not start anymore. It´s not - visibly - crashing at startup, but the start screen never even shows up.  
Any recommendations what might be the cause?

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**Author:** ![samaaron](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/in-thread.sonic-pi.net/samaaron/32/7_2.png) [@samaaron](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/samaaron)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sonic-pi-not-booting-on-macos-sonoma/8697/2 "2024-03-08T19:27:35Z")

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Hi @Gisbert,

A few questions:

- which version of Sonic Pi are you trying to boot?
- which version of macOS did you update from?
- is your Mac Intel or Apple Silicon Powered?
- if it’s Apple Silicon - are you using the arm64 build or the intel one?

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**Author:** ![Gisbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Gisbert](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/Gisbert)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sonic-pi-not-booting-on-macos-sonoma/8697/3 "2024-03-08T19:44:26Z")

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Hi Sam,

- I try to boot Sonic Pi version 4.5
- which macOS version did I update from? I´m pretty sure it was Monterey
- Intel

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**Author:** ![samaaron](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/in-thread.sonic-pi.net/samaaron/32/7_2.png) [@samaaron](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/samaaron)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 7:47pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sonic-pi-not-booting-on-macos-sonoma/8697/4 "2024-03-08T19:47:11Z")

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@Gisbert - please could you submit an issue over on GitHub - [Issues · sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi · GitHub](http://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/issues)

It would be really useful if you could share the full logs found in `~/.sonic-pi/log`.

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**Author:** ![Gisbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Gisbert](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/Gisbert)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sonic-pi-not-booting-on-macos-sonoma/8697/5 "2024-03-08T20:04:44Z")

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I will do that. Thanks!  
Logs are found in the library? Sorry, I need a bit more details where to access the logs.

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**Author:** ![samaaron](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/in-thread.sonic-pi.net/samaaron/32/7_2.png) [@samaaron](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/samaaron)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sonic-pi-not-booting-on-macos-sonoma/8697/6 "2024-03-08T20:36:33Z")

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If you open up a terminal and type the following:

```ruby
open ~/.sonic-pi

```

You’ll see a familiar Finder window pop up with the contents of Sonic Pi’s data directory which is stored within your home directory. This is where Sonic Pi saves the content of your buffers and all your preferences so it can remember where you were when you open it again.

Inside that Finder window you’ll see the log direcory and inside there is a number of `.log` files - it’s these that I’d like if possible.

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**Author:** ![samaaron](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/in-thread.sonic-pi.net/samaaron/32/7_2.png) [@samaaron](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/samaaron)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sonic-pi-not-booting-on-macos-sonoma/8697/7 "2024-03-08T21:04:23Z")

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@Gisbert

One thing to try before we move over to GitHub Issues is to reset your GUI config. Looking at your logs, everything seems to be booting fine - so I’m wondering if your window settings have somehow managed to get into a bad state.

You can easily reset this by deleting the `gui-settings.ini` file found in the `config` directory. You can either open the `.sonic-pi` Finder window using the command above and navigate or just type the following into your terminal to immediately delete that specific file:

```ruby
rm ~/.sonic-pi/config/gui-settings.ini

```

Make sure Sonic Pi isn’t running when you delete it, then try and boot Sonic Pi again. Let me know if that helps at all…

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**Author:** ![Gisbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Gisbert](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/Gisbert)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sonic-pi-not-booting-on-macos-sonoma/8697/8 "2024-03-21T15:53:16Z")

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Hi Sam,

consider my problem solved, I was just able to open Sonic Pi.  
I removed a corrupted file of my wacom driver and it worked…

Thanks!
