After Effects Failed to open

Recenty I ran into an error with After Effects (most up-to date version at the time), where I was unable to get past the initial tile screen upon start up. As I'm sure many of you are aware, when opening most Adobe softwares, it opens a preview tile that has text in the bottom left reading through scripts to start up. My issue is, it wouldn't get passed the first line of script.

I tried mutliple things to try and fix this, clearing cache's, their locations, looking deep into files to work out if there was a duplicate file ruining a start up script, nothing. The only fix around the error was with the help of my IT technitian, who set me up on a new user account on my iMac, this seemed to fix it, and we're still not sure why.

I dont suppose anyone knows why?