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While Mathematica's kernel loads quite well, whenever I try to boot up the program itself it simply never boots. I've tried completely erasing Mathematica and reinstalling, but this did not work. What is going on, and how can I fix it?

John Dumancic
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    Contact Wolfram tech support. – Bob Hanlon Oct 16 '20 at 00:28
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    Out of curiosity, if you go to your $UserBaseDirectory(see @cvgmt's answer), and rename the file in the FrontEnd directory named init.m, does it start again? (I'm asking because I had this exact thing happen to me yesterday, and that was the fix for me) – Lukas Lang Oct 16 '20 at 11:07
  • @LukasLang there are no files in that directory for me. – John Dumancic Oct 16 '20 at 15:02

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Since Mathematica's kernel work, so you can use

$UserBaseDirectory

(* may be  C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Mathematica”  in Windows
 and “/home/YourUserName/.Mathematica” in Linux *)

to get the path of your local settings directory and clean up all the files.

cvgmt
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