Iphoto, Imovie and Preview constantly freezing

Hello,
since updating to Mavericks a couple of months ago, I'm experiencing a lot of problems with this Imac. The Iphoto library will open just fine, but am unable to open a single picture. Also importing from 1 of our devices: Ipod touch won't work since a couple of weeks.  When trying to do either of them, the program will 'freeze' and all I can do is 'force stop'.  Same with preview and Imovie.
I've installed clean my mac 2, but no help there.  Any tips?  Am no computer expert
Thank you all so much!

If all three apps are causing problems then I would guess the issue is at the OS level.
Get rid of Clean My Mac 2. It does more harm than good.
I would reinstall the OS.

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