Fixing Unity Editor stuck on splash screen

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Just posting this here in case someone else runs into it:

I use symlinks to add mod projects to my Assets/Game/Mods folder. Earlier today, I removed some of the original mod project folders that those symlinks point to (but forgot to remove the symlinks). Starting Unity afterwards would have it hung up on the splash screen and it wouldn't load any further, it stays stuck in a loop instead. The Editor.log file didn't indicate anything about being unable to find files but in the end that turned out to be the cause, non-resolvable symlinks. Once I removed those from the Assets/Game/Mods folder, Unity behaved again.

In case this doesn't solve your issue, there are a few other things to try:http://enemyhideout.com/2016/11/unity-t ... t-startup/