Slack Not Opening
Slack Using the Slack Desktop application (not the web based version) of Slack, you can choose to have the application auto-start when you login. You can also choose to have the app minimize itself to your start bar. File - Preferences - Advanced - Other Options (at the bottom) - Launch app on login. Slack did its best to ease the working world back into their jobs this morning by breaking, ensuring that everyone’s return to the grind would be as chaotic and unproductive as possible.
Last week I found myself in a awful predicament. Slack.app for Mac would not open and would hang when trying to load a Team. I searched the Internet and then looked for the files that held the Slack Settings myself in all the usual places (~/Library/Preferences, ~/Library/Application Support, etc.). After not having any luck I even at one point tried App Zapper to see if it could find the settings folder … No Luck!
After not finding anything I had somewhat decided that the only thing to do was to contact support. Support didn’t help a lot and told me to go into the app and click Help -> Reset Local Cache. Download flash player mac os x. Download google drive onto mac. This is a great tip for most things but there was one problem. The app would not stay unfrozen long enough for me to click on Help -> Reset Local Cache.
I told the guy in support this was the case and didn’t hear back from him because of the long weekend. Capture one express mac download. I finally ended up just creating another user profile and fixing the issue that way (which sucked but I was due a format / reinstall anyway so I went ahead and did that while I was at it).
Slack Not Opening Linux
Tuesday support finally got back to me and had a solution that does in fact work. That file that I couldn’t find is in fact located in ~/Library/Containers. So while this post doesn’t help me I thought maybe it might fix someone else’s problem(s) that wanted to reset their slack settings and could not. Simple go to the ~/Library/Containers folder and delete the com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap folder. This will reset your preferences and any Team Data you have in Slack. Hope this helps someone else.