Gewalter Benjamin

Max5 isn't opening!!! What will I do with my life now.... ahhhh!!!

Ok, so here is a summary of what happened. I opened a new patcher, and created two vst~ objects and opened a PinkyVST (Ms. Pinky VST) in each. I then tried writing the file name as the argument of the [plug] message. It didn't work, so I then added the PinkyVST folder to Max's search path and tried again. It didn't work, so I decided to save the patch, close Max and open it again. When I tried to open it again I received a pop up saying "The application MaxMSP quit unexpectedly", but Max had not even loaded and closed. This is what happens now every time I try to run Max. I tried reinstalling it, but that did not help. I also tried closing Airport with no results either. I restarted my computer, and shut it down for 30 minutes. Neither worked.

I am running Max 5.0.2 on a 13 inch black MacBook running OS X Tiger w/ 2 gigs of memory and 78.77 gigs available on the hard drive. Can anyone help? Has anyone else had similar experiences? Thank you!!!

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The first thing i'd recommend is to trash your preferences:

~/Library/Preferences/Max 5 Preferences Folder

If you are still having problems after this, drop a note to support at cycling74 dot com and we will get you straightened out.

hit the nail on the head, thank you so much!

Max5 not opening... PLEASE HELP!!!