I was having trouble with Anki Desktop syncing to Anki Web earlier today and decided to troubleshoot it by re-downloading the latest version of Anki, overwriting the existing application. Unfortunately, that seemed to dig myself deeper into a ditch and now Anki Desktop does not open on my laptop at …

Thanks for the swift response dae! I installed that version and the error remains :frowning:. I think the issue may have to do with me initially re-installing Anki over an existing instance of Anki since that’s where the problem began. Any chance duplicate files/downloads are confusing the program? …

Just want to drop in and say that I was having this issue under 23.10 as well but the release candidate linked fixed it. Intel macOS 11.7.2. Cheers

[Screen Shot 2023-11-04 at 4.55.04 PM] ^To provide more context, this is the error report shown when Anki crashes, it crashes immediately after I open the app before any of the interface displays

That looks like you might be using the older 23.10 version. Please try removing it, then downloading + running the version I linked above again.

Hey Dae, That worked! Thank you so much!

Re-downloaded Anki Desktop and it won't open on MacOS

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dae November 4, 2023, 2:16am 2

Please try this version: Anki 23.10.1 Release Candidate

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Re-downloaded Anki Desktop and it won't open on MacOS

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