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How can I determine why sublime-text 2 will no longer start for me?

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 10368 / 2 Years ago, thu, september 1, 2022, 2:58:50

My sublime-text 2 editor no longer starts when I click it's icon in my dock.

The icon does the normal slow pulsing for a while (unity) but nothing seems to load.

How can I determine why sublime has started failing?

UPDATE

Output of $ cat /usr/share/applications/sublime-text-2.desktop

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open



[Desktop Entry]

Name=Sublime Text 2

GenericName=Text Editor

Comment=Sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose

Exec=/usr/bin/sublime-text-2 %F

Terminal=false

Type=Application

MimeType=text/plain;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-java;text/x-dsrc;text/x-pascal;text/x-perl;text/x-python;application/x-php;application/x-httpd-php3;application/x-httpd-php4;application/x-httpd-php5;application/xml;text/html;text/css;text/x-sql;text/x-diff;x-directory/normal;inode/directory;

Icon=sublime-text-2

Categories=TextEditor;Development;Utility;

Name[en_US]=Sublime Text 2

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow;



[NewWindow Shortcut Group]

Name=Open a New Window

Exec=/usr/bin/sublime-text-2 --new-window

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answered 2 Years ago ticeate · Accepted Answer

I believe this is a fix of the sublime-won't-start problem: link.

Basically what it does is - it reverts the Sublime to its initial state by removing your data (and configuration) folder, which is in one of the following paths, depending on your operating system:

OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2

Windows: %APPDATA%Sublime Text 2

Linux: ~/.config/sublime-text-2

So you just exit Sublime editor, delete the data folder (or back it up somewhere, for future needs) and then restart Sublime.

That will make Sublime work again - so then you can try redoing your steps and see what actually went wrong. At least it worked that way for me.