Rstudio asking to save something on startup, failing to launch

[jcblum]

This person had the same problem:

RStudio crash on open (downloaded with Anaconda)

I downloaded RStudio last week via Anaconda along with r-essentials and it worked fine. I came back from vacation today and loaded up RStudio, and now it crashes on open and gives this window: [image] And no matter what I click it crashes immediately afterwards. Here is my log: 19 May 2018 03:50:29 [rdesktop] ERROR system error 2 (The system cannot find the file specified); OCCURRED AT: void __cdecl rstudio::core::http::NamedPipeAsyncClient::connectAndWriteRequest(void) C:\Users\builder\m64\conda-bld\rstudio_1519582538781\work\src\cpp\core\include\core/http/NamedPipeAsyncClient.hpp:84; LOGGED FROM: void __cdecl rstudio::NetworkReply::onError(const class rstudio::core::Error &) C…

Their solution was to switch to using RStudio IDE downloaded directly from RStudio’s site. I’m afraid It’s still not clear where the source of the problem lies.