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Installing Android Studio on Mac for the first time, but getting "IDE Already Running” error

I am new to this – I trying to install Android Studio on my MacBook Air (macOS Mojave v10.14.6). After the installing, when I try and open Android Studio I get the following error:

Cannot connect to already running IDE instance. CannotActivateException: /Users/xxxxxx/Library/Application Support/Google/AndroidStudio2023.1

When trying to find the folder directory above, I cannot find /Google/ in the Application Support folder – not sure if this has anything to do with it.

Any ideas on how I can get this to work?

thanks in advance

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    Check what access rights you have on that directory. You may have installed a Google related application before as ‘root’ causing the owner status of the directory to become ‘root’, and that would stop you from accessing the directory as a regular user.
    If the Google directory has got owner ‘root’ then run this command.

    sudo chown -R your_user_name:desired_group_name ~/Library/Application Support/Google

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    sudo chown -R your_user_name:group_name ~/Library/Application Support/Google

    your primary group name is staff

    you can get your username and groupname with ‘id’ command in terminal like this

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    uid=501(erdemakca) gid=20(staff)

    and you can type like this with this results

    sudo chown -R erdemakca:staff ~/Library/Application Support/Google

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