# Atom Not Opening on Mac 10.13.6 **URL:** \ **Category:** TidalCycles\ **Tags:** installation\ **Created:** [19 October 2020 20:03 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/atom-not-opening-on-mac-10-13-6/2300 "2020-10-19T20:03:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harry\_Bone](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/harry_bone/32/1311_2.png) [@Harry\_Bone](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/Harry_Bone)\ **Post date:** [19 October 2020 20:03 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/atom-not-opening-on-mac-10-13-6/2300/1 "2020-10-19T20:03:01Z")
Hey guys, Got an issue I can't explain. I couldn't quit Atom, so I chose to Force Quit the app instead. Now it doesn't open at all - as if it doesn't exist. The image shows the package contents but that's as far as I'm able to discover & I have made sure all of the pre-requisites are in place etc. etc. Any help or ideas on this would be awesome! Cheers! ![Shot of atom package contents in terminal](https://uzu.lurk.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6324e780779e7c2c1c2c7f075d243b3a41eae352.png) ---
**Author:** ![ndr\_brt](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/ndr_brt/32/396_2.png) [@ndr\_brt](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/ndr_brt)\ **Post date:** [20 October 2020 09:33 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/atom-not-opening-on-mac-10-13-6/2300/2 "2020-10-20T09:33:15Z")
I think you played bad with the atom configuration. Open the file `~/.atom/config.cson` and remove the `bootTidalPath:` row ---
**Author:** ![Harry\_Bone](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/harry_bone/32/1311_2.png) [@Harry\_Bone](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/Harry_Bone)\ **Post date:** [20 October 2020 18:35 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/atom-not-opening-on-mac-10-13-6/2300/3 "2020-10-20T18:35:20Z")
Ok well the issue is, is that I can't actually enter the Terminal window to edit it out . . . and I can't find that ~/.atom/config.cson file in any case. Perhaps something broke when I Force Quit the app?? ---
**Author:** ![Harry\_Bone](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/harry_bone/32/1311_2.png) [@Harry\_Bone](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/Harry_Bone)\ **Post date:** [20 October 2020 18:37 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/atom-not-opening-on-mac-10-13-6/2300/4 "2020-10-20T18:37:53Z")
![Screen Shot 2020-10-20 at 19.37.20](https://club.tidalcycles.org/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9c3046e3447e2a5079da1d4df9822c4985ede531.png) Thanks in advance @ndr_brt ---
**Author:** ![ndr\_brt](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/ndr_brt/32/396_2.png) [@ndr\_brt](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/ndr_brt)\ **Post date:** [20 October 2020 19:11 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/atom-not-opening-on-mac-10-13-6/2300/5 "2020-10-20T19:11:18Z")
My advice is, close everything, remove atom, remove `~/.atom` folder, then reinstall atom and reinstall tidalcycles plugin ---
**Author:** ![Harry\_Bone](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/harry_bone/32/1311_2.png) [@Harry\_Bone](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/Harry_Bone)\ **Post date:** [21 October 2020 13:51 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/atom-not-opening-on-mac-10-13-6/2300/6 "2020-10-21T13:51:52Z")
Still not luck unfortunately! ![Screen Shot 2020-10-21 at 14.49.32](https://club.tidalcycles.org/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a22b6a0a5bc974196d6c1ffdfac4dac5cf8a8ce4.png) ![Screen Shot 2020-10-21 at 14.49.41](https://club.tidalcycles.org/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4e1e8e25408515e4cff2f5bf7d679e75d1c72393.png) ![Screen Shot 2020-10-21 at 14.51.13](https://club.tidalcycles.org/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3a729ecee58655dbfad1f0e5ae9467fba73f4eec.png) ---
**Author:** ![ndr\_brt](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/ndr_brt/32/396_2.png) [@ndr\_brt](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/ndr_brt)\ **Post date:** [21 October 2020 23:02 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/atom-not-opening-on-mac-10-13-6/2300/7 "2020-10-21T23:02:23Z")
what if you start atom from the terminal? same error as before? ---
**Author:** ![Harry\_Bone](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/harry_bone/32/1311_2.png) [@Harry\_Bone](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/Harry_Bone)\ **Post date:** [22 October 2020 19:06 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/atom-not-opening-on-mac-10-13-6/2300/9 "2020-10-22T19:06:48Z")
Yup same as before! 😄 ![1](https://club.tidalcycles.org/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1e614039e9a0deb346cae04600b34c00e92602b9.jpeg) ![2](https://club.tidalcycles.org/uploads/default/original/2X/5/57011887cc9266e18fc2ab02ecea5063bbba28be.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ndr\_brt](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/ndr_brt/32/396_2.png) [@ndr\_brt](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/ndr_brt)\ **Post date:** [23 October 2020 06:52 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/atom-not-opening-on-mac-10-13-6/2300/10 "2020-10-23T06:52:02Z")
`atom` Lowercase it. ---
**Author:** ![Harry\_Bone](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/harry_bone/32/1311_2.png) [@Harry\_Bone](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/Harry_Bone)\ **Post date:** [23 October 2020 11:58 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/atom-not-opening-on-mac-10-13-6/2300/11 "2020-10-23T11:58:02Z")
Nope still no window showing. Been looking around and wondering if the 'complete path' on terminal should be different . . . ? Seen as Atom worked with the 'Stack' rather than 'Cabal' previously . . . ![Screen Shot 2020-10-23 at 12.49.45](https://club.tidalcycles.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e3adf1e9d7f80efaad9806d36f1b4679f48f2ba2.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ndr\_brt](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/ndr_brt/32/396_2.png) [@ndr\_brt](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/ndr_brt)\ **Post date:** [23 October 2020 21:54 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/atom-not-opening-on-mac-10-13-6/2300/12 "2020-10-23T21:54:32Z")
Atom is independent from cabal or stack ---
**Author:** ![ndr\_brt](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/ndr_brt/32/396_2.png) [@ndr\_brt](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/ndr_brt)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2020 14:52 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/atom-not-opening-on-mac-10-13-6/2300/13 "2020-11-04T14:52:47Z")
As said on github, there's a problem with your ghc installation, I'm not able to help you, sorry, but maybe someone here can. Ref: [https://github.com/tidalcycles/atom-tidalcycles/issues/114#issuecomment-720122429](https://github.com/tidalcycles/atom-tidalcycles/issues/114#issuecomment-720122429)