Dropbox, mail, and other apps having problems after 10.8.2 upgrade

Here are a few of the symptons that I have experienced-
Dropbox came up with a relink request and said the folder had been moved
Mail shuts down suddenly
Chrom shuts down suddenly and when I re open, the restore banner shows and then disappears
within Chrom, the recently closed tabs in HISTORY does not show the tabs that were up when the mysterious shutdowns occur.
comments please!

Have you tried starting in Safe Mode and see if the problems still occur?
Restart holding the "shift" key.
(Expect it to take longer to start this way because it runs a directory check first.)

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If there is a better forum to post this, please let me know. I don't see a forum specific to auto-updates...
Today auto-update installed Security Update 2006-003 v1.0 and QuickTime 7.1. After this install, I now have the following symptoms:
1. Mail will not start. No window, no menu. Dock shows app not repsonding.
2. Safari will not start. A blank window appears and the menu is painted. Dock shows app not responding.
3. MS IE still functions. So, there is network connectivity. I am posting this using IE. Both Safari and IE have home set to apple.com/startpage/
4. The System Preferences app starts and functions for most settings. However, if I select Accounts in order to disable the auto-start of Mail, the Prefs app never switches to the Accounts display, and it hangs forever.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Is there any way to roll back an update to see if that really is the problem?

Glad your problem was resolved. Just saw this thread and was curious after your clean install and Combo Update to 10.3.9 did you reinstall Security Update 2006-003 which was giving you problems with Safari and Mail.
You mentioned you have since run Disk Utility. From experience I have learned its normally a good idea to run Disk Utility before and after major updates including installation of Apple Security Updates. Did you reinstall the security update after reinstall, updating to 10.3.9 and running Disk Utility? I have not even installed Security Update 2006-003 at all or QuickTime 7.1
I don't want to risk downloading a defective update that causes more headaches than its worth. If it fixes some serious flaws and makes my Mac more secure but messes up with my system and prevents me from running Safari then obviously I won't touch it. I remember installing Security Update 2006-001 that was a nightmare. I had to do a clean OS reinstall after that to get Safari working again and reupdate to 10.3.9 so I can use QuickTime 7.
With iTunes 5 update for Mac and Windows I noticed on both my Mac and my PC (have an Apple laptop with OS X and a desktop PC with Win XP) that my shared music libraries stopped working. My Mac could not share music with my PC nor could my PC share music with my Mac. The iTunes 6.0.2 update was also problematic -- as Disk Utility stopped working.
I heard of problems in QuickTime 7.1 affecting both Macs and Windows PCs have deliberately chosen not to update either my Mac or PC to that update -- have QT 7 for Mac and Windows installed but won't update to 7.1 on either OS if it causes problems. Now I hear Security Update 2006-003 can force Safari and other apps like Mail to stop working.
Before I heard a few people say on Intel Macs the update caused OS to freeze more only (sometimes) which is a problem but didn't hear anything as serious as this. Was just considering finally downloading the update since I hadn't heard any problems yet but will now likely hold off on it indefinately. I do want my Mac to be secure but at same time don't want a faulty update to break my applications. Don't want to go through same problem I experienced when installing Security Update 2006-001 all over again with Security Update 2006-003.
After reinstalling OS X Panther and updating to 10.3.9 and running Disk Utility of course (as needed in between major installs) I deliberately did not reinstall Security Update 2006-001 I decided it was more headache than its worth. I had to reinstall OS X to get Safari working again and get rid of that update reinstalling it after that would only return the problem. Then I would have to do a clean reinstall of OS X a third time, update to 10.3.9 and QT 7 to access Safari. Of course I also reinstalled past Apple Security Updates from last year (calendar year 2005) that didn't cause trouble.
However, I did install Security Update 2006-002 later after I double checked -- waited for a while to hear if any bugs were in the update and once I felt sure it was a safe update I installed it to better secure the OS.

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Links from within Firefox windows open new tab, but links within Mail, MSWord, and other apps attempt to open another copy of Firefox, and I get the "Close Firefox: A copy of Firefox is already open. Only one copy of Firefox can be open at a time." This just started happening less than a week ago. I don't know when FF updated to version 22.0.

My problem seems to be fixed--I cannot reproduce it now, though it had been consistently happening for the past 3-4 days. The suggestions above do not seem to apply in any case: I do not want to open another instance of Firefox but simply to connect with the one that is already running; and I do not seem to have a .parentlock file.
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Anybody out there know how to wake up a Lion safely?

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And yes, I am using Yosemite 10.10.3

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Hi
I have just upgraded from an iPod touch to iPhone and the notes app won't work at all. It imported note from my iPod (which used to work fine) but will not let me add or delete notes and the contents of the notes are also screwed up. If it was a computer app I would bin it and reload but how do you that with an iPhone.
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The time displayed on the date received tab of my mail app is stuck to 7:08 PM no matter when I have received the mail. Same thing with TimeMachine and skype. All the time Displayed are 7:08PM but the clock on the top right works fine. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thank you,
Angelo

Go to System Preferences > Language & Text > Formats.
In the "Times" section, click the "Customize..." button.
In the new screen, make sure that none of the upper four boxes (Short, Medium, Long, Full) contain any text (other than commas in appropriate places). All entries in those boxes should be blue ovals. If any need to be replaced, remove the text and drag the appropriate one up from the array in "Time Elements". Note - the info shown in those blue ovals is sample only.

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All of this was working flawlessly in 10.5, so this is all new to 10.6.
I did migrate my user data - perhaps there is some preference or setting file somewhere that is incompatible?
I see other people have this issue (e.g.):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10962136&#10962136
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According to the Mac Help, "You can also use Ink to draw a sketch and insert it in any document that can display pictures." Would that option perhaps do what you want? (I don't have a tablet myself so I can't test it.)

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I upgraded to Windows 8.1 from 8 (tablet Lenovo Miix 10) and I encountered the following problems:
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Hi
the GFX issue can be resolved with this post,
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Idea-Windows-based-Tablets-and/Miix-10-quot-Display-Driver-stopped-respo...
the other issues ive not experienced!
i felt my tablet was very stable and fast, bar the GFx problem, (bearing in mind its a Atom)
id advise removing any apps you dont require,
doing a C Drive Clean up, (right click C drive,properties, disk clean up, then system disk clean up.)
then also doing a Defrag button in tools (it wont Defrag as its SSD, but it will TRIM the disk, (its done weekly by default anyway..)

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I updated my iPhone to iOS 7.0.5 and I lost my messages and camera app and other apps i downloaded from app store. I was having the problem of losing apps since before I updated to the latest IOS. What should i do?

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I downloaded OS X Lion on my iMac and I'm having problems with my computer waking up after hibernating. I can get to the login screen but my mouse will be frozen. The only fix's is a hard reboot. Any help would be great!

I downloaded OS X Lion on my iMac and I'm having problems with my computer waking up after hibernating. I can get to the login screen but my mouse will be frozen. The only fix's is a hard reboot. Any help would be great!

Try resetting the SMC and the PRAM.
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Dropbox, mail, and other apps having problems after 10.8.2 upgrade

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