Audition Crashes on Start Up

Report · Oct 29, 2020

Dear All -

I am running High Sierra 10.13.6 on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) and have Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 (all other programmes working perfectly) from which I run Adobe Audition 4.0.

Audition worked perfectly until a recent iTunes update and now it crashes. I have reinstalled it but still get the same result. These are the notes from Apple:

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Reason: DYLD, [0x2] Wrong architecture

Application Specific Information:

dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

Dyld Error Message:

Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Versions/A/MobileDevice

Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudioKit.framework/Versions/A/CoreAudioKit

Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Versions/A/MobileDevice: mach-o, but wrong architecture

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Versions/A/MobileDevice: stat() failed with errno=45

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Versions/A/MobileDevice: mach-o, but wrong architecture

Has anyone any suggestions how I can get the programme running again? I use it for my work and would be very grateful for suggestions. Thanks for your help in anticipation.

Martin G

Report · Oct 29, 2020

That shouldn't happen with High Sierra. It's the last Apple OS that would support 32-bit apps, but in the back of my mind I seem to recall that they released an update that screwed it so it wouldn't - which is exactly what your error messages are indicating. There were a lot of complaints about it, and they 'reluctantly' released a patch correcting this, I believe. Can't find it though (I don't need it, as I don't run a Mac), but there has been at least one more thread about this, if you search. Failing that, get on to Apple and ask them.

But don't be under any illusions; Apple really are out to shaft you in the long run over any 32-bit apps in a way that Microsoft simply aren't going to. MS let you run a 32-bit emulation invisibly in W10, so all prior versions continue to run.

Apple's statement about 32-bit apps