Preview application on dock not working

I have a problem with preview application, so when I click the preview icon on dock, it doens't open. I have tried many ways such as re-installing Mac OS Lion, going to the Library and creating a new user giving it read/write previleges and going to Prefernces on the Library folder finding the filie com.apple.Preview.plist( this file doesn't exist in my Library), none of the ways fixed my problem, so someone could help me please?

ajfmachado wrote:
I have a problem with preview application, so when I click the preview icon on dock, it doens't open. I have tried many ways such as re-installing Mac OS Lion, going to the Library and creating a new user giving it read/write previleges and going to Prefernces on the Library folder finding the filie com.apple.Preview.plist( this file doesn't exist in my Library), none of the ways fixed my problem, so someone could help me please?
Have you tried launching it from Applications?
Pete

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