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Vasudeva Rao Aravind
Vasudeva Rao Aravind

Reputation: 195

Unable to open Atom

I am unable to open my Atom Editor. It was working fine until yesterday, but don't know why it won't open today. No windows update or anything on my computer. I tried deleting the 'Storage' folder as mentioned in some online forums, doesn't help. Any suggestions? I am using Atom version 1.19.6.0.

Upvotes: 16

Views: 24369

Answers (8)

thisispurecode
thisispurecode

Reputation: 1

The atom Window is just minimized, it gives the impression of not openning, but it is actually opening, again is just minimized.

I was able to see the atom interface, by maximizing the window using the keyboard: on windows, it normally is Alt+SpaceBar+x.

Upvotes: 0

Rafay Ali
Rafay Ali

Reputation: 3

All you simply need to do is go the main directly where the file is located and open the FIRST folder.

After opening it, there you will see atom file, double click on it and it will be opened successfully.

Upvotes: 0

Jakub Wysocki
Jakub Wysocki

Reputation: 451

If you're using MAC OS and have similar problem, try this: Open Window tab

window tab

and then click Zoom.

Zoom

Upvotes: 34

Trees
Trees

Reputation: 1283

I found that mv command is not builtin Windows cmd as suggested by Gonen. So following the idea of Gonen, a working solution can also be like:

  1. In windows explorer type %USERPROFILE%/.atom/, or manually go to the path (in my case): C:\Users\hussainazhar.atom. Of course, go to your drive path accordingly. Close Atom application if already opened.
  2. Simply rename the config.cson to config.SAVE.cson
  3. Open up the Atom and now you can go to the settings :)

Upvotes: 0

Gonen
Gonen

Reputation: 4075

Atom will sometime fail to open because of a bad configuration-file.

To better diagnose this on Windows (10), try running atom from a CMD window:

  1. Open the task-manager and kill any instance of Atom that is listed there
  2. Open a Command-window -
    Ctrl+Esc > (type "command") > Enter
  3. Go to where Atom is installed -
    cd %USERPROFILE%/AppData/Local/atom/app-*
  4. Run Atom -
    atom.exe

If you see an error message at this point, it should help identify the problem.

If still not clear, you can try moving the main configuration-file,
which is in a different folder:

  1. cd %USERPROFILE%/.atom/
  2. rename config.cson config.SAVE.cson
  3. Go to where Atom is installed (again) -
    cd %USERPROFILE%/AppData/Local/atom/app-*
  4. Run Atom -
    atom.exe

Based on this answer on the Atom forum:
https://discuss.atom.io/t/atom-will-not-open-windows/47489

Upvotes: 19

Allison
Allison

Reputation: 2326

I experienced this issue when my Atom windows all suddenly resized to be so small I could not see or find them anywhere (some weird glitch with opening it from a full-screen window on an external display). I resolved it by command-tabbing (I think it's ctrl-tab on Windows, I forget) to my open atom application to bring up the application's menu bar, and then selecting Window > Zoom from the menu.

Upvotes: 4

Salman
Salman

Reputation: 19

  1. Open the task-manager and kill any instance of Atom that is listed there
  2. Got to where Atom installed : Mine:> C:\Users\%userprofile%\AppData\Local\atom

See this Image

Go to Folder indicated in the picture and find atom.exe by scrolling through the folder and open it and make a shortcut to desktop and it will work.

Upvotes: 0

Danicoolpak17
Danicoolpak17

Reputation: 1

I am using Atom on Windows 10 64-bit, and had similar problems of installation and not running later.

You can do the following:

  1. Empty Trash, and Temp and Prefetch folders.
  2. Change the security and read only properties of the temp folder.
  3. IMP > Disable antivirus and run atom it will work, later add the Atom app to exclusion list of your antivirus.

Upvotes: 0

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