Brave doesn't launch on MacOS

After a few hours working with Brave in normal, Private and Tor mode i closed Brave. A few minutes later i want to start it again and Brave won’t start. Starting Brave from the command line gives me this:

/Applications/Brave\ Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave\ Browser
[14200:49411:1220/175908.421837:ERROR:block_files.cc(469)] Failed to open /Users/<myuser>/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Tor Profile/GPUCache/data_1
[1220/175908.523789:WARNING:process_memory_mac.cc(93)] mach_vm_read(0x7ffee67f0000, 0x2000): (os/kern) invalid address (1)
[1220/175908.633134:WARNING:system_snapshot_mac.cc(42)] sysctlbyname kern.nx: No such file or directory (2)
[1220/175908.645400:WARNING:crash_report_exception_handler.cc(239)] UniversalExceptionRaise: (os/kern) failure (5)
[14211:775:1220/175908.650305:ERROR:child_thread_impl.cc(227)] Invalid PlatformChannel receive right
[14210:775:1220/175908.650305:ERROR:child_thread_impl.cc(227)] Invalid PlatformChannel receive right
[1220/175908.651474:WARNING:process_memory_mac.cc(93)] mach_vm_read(0x7ffeea011000, 0x2000): (os/kern) invalid address (1)
Segmentation fault: 11
 [1220/175908.788853:WARNING:system_snapshot_mac.cc(42)] sysctlbyname kern.nx: No such file or directory (2)
    [1220/175908.799881:WARNING:process_memory_mac.cc(93)] mach_vm_read(0x7ffee12ce000, 0x2000): (os/kern) invalid address (1)
    [1220/175908.888118:WARNING:system_snapshot_mac.cc(42)] sysctlbyname kern.nx: No such file or directory (2)

MacOS 10.15.2 (19C57)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018)
2,2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7
32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB

Latest Brave

Issue can be resolved by deleting everything (probably not needed to delete really EVERYTHING) under ~/Library/Application Support/Brave Software and restart the browser. Of course you have to install your extensions again and set Brave up the way you want to.
This time it happened after i opened a Private browser, then a Tor window and closed them again without actually opening any website.

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Try to delete tor profile from brave directory

rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Tor\ Profile

not needed to delete everything

Thanks! Why does the profile corrupt?

I don’t know, I think the related issue for developers here:

Yes, it’s that issue.

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