Feb
6
Finding the Config File for Vidalia
I’ve been playing around with Vidalia builds lately on my Mac. (For those who don’t know, Vidalia is a Tor and Privoxy bundle that basically gives you better anonymity for your Internet usage via “onion routing.”) At some point, I rolled back my build from an experimental 0.1.6 build to a stable build. Then, all of a sudden, Tor couldn’t start because of a “read config failed” error—it was an incompatible config file.
To fix this, I located my torrc. There are two: /Library/Tor/torrc and /Users/[your username]/.vidalia/torrc. I removed the latter torrc (actually, “mv torrc torrc.old”). Then I restarted Vidalia, and all was good again.