02-06-2018, 08:41 PM
Please do one of the following actions:
1. after stopping your current running hashcat instance (the one with --session etc), delete the file "hashcat.pid" from the main hashcat folder
2. copy all your important files (including the pot file if you cracked some hashes, dictionaries, hash files etc) from your hashcat folder into a save place, delete the whole hashcat folder, download a fresh copy of hashcat from https://hashcat.net/hashcat , extract the 7-Zip file and copy your important files back to the new extracted folder
This problem could occur if hashcat was unable to safetly remove the hashcat.pid file when it was killed/quit
1. after stopping your current running hashcat instance (the one with --session etc), delete the file "hashcat.pid" from the main hashcat folder
2. copy all your important files (including the pot file if you cracked some hashes, dictionaries, hash files etc) from your hashcat folder into a save place, delete the whole hashcat folder, download a fresh copy of hashcat from https://hashcat.net/hashcat , extract the 7-Zip file and copy your important files back to the new extracted folder
This problem could occur if hashcat was unable to safetly remove the hashcat.pid file when it was killed/quit