# Scrivener won't launch after freezing

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-wont-launch-after-freezing/145530>\
**Category:** Scrivener for macOS\
**Tags:** bug, crash\
**Created:** [January 27, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-wont-launch-after-freezing/145530 "2025-01-27T02:10:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![PC812](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@PC812](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/PC812)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-wont-launch-after-freezing/145530/1 "2025-01-27T02:10:47Z")

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Scrivener froze on me while I was trying to exit focus mode, so I force-quit it. But now, it won’t launch at all. It just bounces in the dock and then just stops and nothing opens. I tried restarting my computer and even tried reinstalling Scrivener, but it won’t open at all.

My computer is running Sonoma 14.6 and the problem started on Scrivener 3.3.1. I just upgraded to 3.4 to see if that would fix it, but the problems persist.

EDITED: I finally got it working. I wasn’t aware there was a more recent version of Sonoma, but I installed that and Scrivener opened up again.