Good afternoon. I have been through the various trouble shooting guides but can't find a solution to our problem. My son and I have an UNO starter kit and the latest Arduino IDE running on OSX 10.13.6. When we try the very simplest sketch (blinking LED) we get the following error message:
Arduino: 1.8.9 (Mac OS X), Board: "Arduino/Genuino Uno"
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/private/var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/6D58802A-9A19-41D3-91BA-4ED8EA8D6D60/d/Arduino-2.app/Contents/Java/arduino-builder -compile -logger=machine -hardware /private/var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/6D58802A-9A19-41D3-91BA-4ED8EA8D6D60/d/Arduino-2.app/Contents/Java/hardware -hardware /Users/user/Library/Arduino15/packages -tools /private/var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/6D58802A-9A19-41D3-91BA-4ED8EA8D6D60/d/Arduino-2.app/Contents/Java/tools-builder -tools /private/var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/6D58802A-9A19-41D3-91BA-4ED8EA8D6D60/d/Arduino-2.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr -tools /Users/user/Library/Arduino15/packages -built-in-libraries /private/var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/6D58802A-9A19-41D3-91BA-4ED8EA8D6D60/d/Arduino-2.app/Contents/Java/libraries -libraries /Users/user/Documents/Arduino/libraries -fqbn=arduino:avr:uno -vid-pid=0X2341_0X0043 -ide-version=10809 -build-path /var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/arduino_build_634703 -warnings=all -build-cache /var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/arduino_cache_735343 -prefs=build.warn_data_percentage=75 -prefs=runtime.tools.arduinoOTA.path=/private/var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/6D58802A-9A19-41D3-91BA-4ED8EA8D6D60/d/Arduino-2.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr -prefs=runtime.tools.arduinoOTA-1.2.1.path=/private/var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/6D58802A-9A19-41D3-91BA-4ED8EA8D6D60/d/Arduino-2.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr -prefs=runtime.tools.avr-gcc.path=/Users/user/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/avr-gcc/5.4.0-atmel3.6.1-arduino2 -prefs=runtime.tools.avr-gcc-5.4.0-atmel3.6.1-arduino2.path=/Users/user/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/avr-gcc/5.4.0-atmel3.6.1-arduino2 -prefs=runtime.tools.avrdude.path=/private/var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/6D58802A-9A19-41D3-91BA-4ED8EA8D6D60/d/Arduino-2.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr -prefs=runtime.tools.avrdude-6.3.0-arduino14.path=/private/var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/6D58802A-9A19-41D3-91BA-4ED8EA8D6D60/d/Arduino-2.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr -verbose /Users/user/Documents/Arduino/blink19/blink19.ino
Using board 'uno' from platform in folder: /private/var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/6D58802A-9A19-41D3-91BA-4ED8EA8D6D60/d/Arduino-2.app/Contents/Java/hardware/arduino/avr
Using core 'arduino' from platform in folder: /private/var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/6D58802A-9A19-41D3-91BA-4ED8EA8D6D60/d/Arduino-2.app/Contents/Java/hardware/arduino/avr
Detecting libraries used...
/Users/user/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/avr-gcc/5.4.0-atmel3.6.1-arduino2/bin/avr-g++ -c -g -Os -w -std=gnu++11 -fpermissive -fno-exceptions -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-threadsafe-statics -Wno-error=narrowing -flto -w -x c++ -E -CC -mmcu=atmega328p -DF_CPU=16000000L -DARDUINO=10809 -DARDUINO_AVR_UNO -DARDUINO_ARCH_AVR -I/private/var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/6D58802A-9A19-41D3-91BA-4ED8EA8D6D60/d/Arduino-2.app/Contents/Java/hardware/arduino/avr/cores/arduino -I/private/var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/6D58802A-9A19-41D3-91BA-4ED8EA8D6D60/d/Arduino-2.app/Contents/Java/hardware/arduino/avr/variants/standard /var/folders/60/7w856r0j2mg3314hyp0xjghw0000gn/T/arduino_build_634703/sketch/blink19.ino.cpp -o /dev/null
fork/exec /Users/user/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/avr-gcc/5.4.0-atmel3.6.1-arduino2/bin/avr-g++: no such file or directory
Error compiling for board Arduino/Genuino Uno.
It seems to be a problem with the Library but neither of us are very clever when it comes to code (this is our first attempt) and I can't seem to solve this problem. Is anyone able to offer any insight?
Much appreciated!
Tom