MrNarwhalker

there we go. deleted the file, restarted fresh and it worked. re-added my data folder and now all is back to normal. thank you

LB not BB. yes that file is there

correct. closed, confirmed in task manager. deleted data folder (moved it to my desktop). relaunched. it loaded as if it were a fresh install and asked me how I wanted to import games. closed that pop up and hit options to a loading spinner followed by the above error

removed ALL data files. didn't work, but I finally got an error:

I've gotten responses on social media but not here, so following up: I reinstalled over the current LB, but that didn't fix anything. They recommend to remove my data files due to possible data corruption, but I don't know which ones, so I'm waiting on response.

Currently on 12.9 and whenever I tap to open Options I will get a spinning loader over my cursor for a moment, and then nothing occurs. I've restarted and checked for updates but don't really know any other methods to troubleshoot this.