JoeCode

Fix RStudio session start errors, macOS Sonoma

Jan 06, 2025

RStudio fails to start on macOS Sonoma because of a permissions issue with where RStudio saves session information. I fixed the issue by executing the following commands:

sudo mkdir ~/.local/share/rstudio
sudo chown -R username:staff ~/.local/share/rstudio
chmod -R 755 ~/.local/share/rstudio

FYI: None of the support articles about resetting “state” on Posit and/or StackOverflow worked for me.