Error 9: Project cannot be restarted after a period of time.

Teach me please.

After creating and saving the schematic and PCB in the project, exit the system.
After a day or so, when I launch it, I get the following error and can’t open the project.

I have confirmed that the .kicad_prl file is in this folder.

I can open the project if turn the system off and turn it on immediately, or turn it on after about an hour.

What does Error 9 mean?
Is there any way to deal with it?

It is a change from Ver6 to Ver7.

I also tried uninstalling.
I deleted the following folders.
/Applications/KiCad
/Users//documents/kicad
/Users//Library/Preferences/kicad (hidden file)

PC environment is
macOS Ventura Version 13.2.1
KiCad Version: 7.0.1-0

Seems like a permissions problem with your OS.

Thank you for your reply.
I tried several points.
Neither could be recovered.

Below is the content of the trip.

  1. I upgraded the OS version from 13.2.1 to 13.3.1.

  2. Changed the permissions of the folders and files where the project is stored.
    As work, right-click on the folder, select Get info, change Sharing & Permissions as follows.
    (me): Read & Write
    staff : Read only
    everyone: no access

  3. I ran FirstAid and repaired permissions.

Have you had this problem on other PCs?

I’m using KiCad 7 on Ventura with no issues.

Based on this:

I’d be willing to bet that you are syncing your Documents folder with iCloud, and that is causing the issue.

Thank you very much!!
Seems to have been resolved.

1 I removed the Documents folder from iCloud sync.

2 I put the project file in the Document holder out of the Document holder.
Specifically, I stopped A) and changed to B).
A) /Users/username/Documents/KiCad/7.0/projects
B) /Users/username/kicad_project

Now the error is gone.

I thought that only 1) would be enough, but an error occurred, and by doing 2) the error no longer occurred.

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