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You are probably not running with admin access. so the socket location is not in the default directory. But since you had Docker Desktop installed before, the original context still exist. You should be able to switch over by running

docker context use rancher-desktop

now I am getting the following error..

context "rancher-desktop": context not found: open /Users/cshah/.docker/contexts/meta/b547d66a5de60e5f0843aba28283a8875c2ad72e99ba076060ef9ec7c09917c8/meta.json: no such file or directory

Is Rancher Desktop running at that time? Did you select "moby" as the container engine (it is the default in the first-run dialog)?

yes

Sorry, no idea; it sounds like the moby daemon did not start properly. I would recommend to open a GitHub issue and attach a ZIP file of all the logs to it.

zip -ro9 logs ~/Library/Logs/rancher-desktop

thanks for the help