Initializing daemon…
go-ipfs version: 0.4.23-
Repo version: 7
System version: amd64/darwin
Golang version: go1.13.7
Error: Your programs version (7) is lower than your repos (9).
Please update ipfs to a version that supports the existing repo, or run
how did you upgrade? From the other comment, it seems you are using IPFS Desktop. IPFS Desktop for 0.5.0 has not been released yet (it’s on the works).
It seems that you installed a newer go-ipfs manually and now you are trying to start the old go-ipfs with Desktop (?).
Options are:
Do not run Desktop and run 0.5.0 ipfs manually from the command line