After Effects Fails to Load Plugins and Freezes on Loading Screen (Never Opens Up)

[Whiteselt]

I have been having an issue with After Effects recently where it refuses to open. Everytime I try, it notifies me that a bunch of AEJuice plugins failed to load and then the loading screen gets stuck on "Cleaning up" and then crashes. I have tried resetting preferences, disabling plugins, running in safemode, and deleting the camera raw plugin as suggested in other forums, but to no avail.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[nishu_kush]

Sorry to hear about the crash. Try running After Effects in Safe Mode with third-party plug-ins disabled if you haven't tried already. If that doesn't help, try removing the AE Juice plug-in. Lastly you can try this: Go to the following location and remove (or move to a different location to keep a backup) all the files and folders except dummy.txt and try to launch After Effects.

Location on macOS - HD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plugins/7.0/MediaCore

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks,
Nishu

[Whiteselt]

Hi, are you sure that file path for media core you shared is correct? I wasn't able to find it on my mac.

I tried everything else that you mentioned though and no luck 😞