Cannot launch Nethackcocoa after duplicating application folder (and then deleting); pid error

[dvmtucson]

So I screwed something up when I duplicated the Nethackcocoa folder in my Applications folder (on a MacBook Pro running OX11.6.7). I have run Nethackcocoa without issue for a couple of weeks prior to this. I launched from the duplicated folder, quit, then deleted the duplicated folder, but now the original will not launch.

When I launch, it prompts "There are files from a game in progress under your name. Recover?"

I click "No" (because otherwise the program just shuts down). It lets me choose a player, gives me the "It is written in the book..." window, but then when I close that it asks, "Do you want your possessions identified?" etc. In the scrolling window it says, "Level #0 pid (58709) doesn't match ours (#####)!" where the ##### is a different number each time I try, and I can see is the pid of the Nethack process in Activity Monitor. It says "You were tricked in the Dungeons of Doom..."

I tried deleting the existing folder, redownloading Nethackcocoa from the App store, but same issue persists. Help!

[neal-howland]

I have had this happen even without duplicating the applications folder. I was able to resolve by deleting the Library/Containers/nethackcocoa folder.

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[dvmtucson]

Yes, was able to find the [user]/Library/Containers/Nethack/Data/nethackdir folder finally. Deleting files in there fixed the problem. (Trouble is that Library folder is hidden, so had to search "nethackdir" to get in there.)