Some applications fail to open

Some of my apps no longer open. They used to. Over the wekend I shut down the computer. Yesterday the problems began. The following apps all exhibit the same behavior: Appleworks, Quicken 2007, EyeTV. And that behavior is...
- no matter how I try to open (click on a document, on the dock, or within the Apps folder), they begin to open, the first window or 2 appears, then they close and I get a "Application... unexpected quit... Close, Report, or Reopen?"
Other apps still work, e.g., Safari, Firefox, iTunes, iPhoto, Calculator, Chess.
The only commonality I can see (and this may have nothing to do with the trouble) is that the offending apps all try to open more than 1 window on startup. All the apps that work only open one window. Please, any ideas anyone?

Hi, rjstaron. Welcome to the Discussions.
See my "Multiple applications quit unexpectedly or fail to launch" FAQ for advice on troubleshooting this issue.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
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Some of my users have started using Firefox 32 and discovered that files on the websites (pdf, xls, doc, etc) will not open fully if the application option is set to a windows application such as Acrobat Viewer, Microsoft Excel, Word, etc. The Download manager shows them listed and "hung" up. The file is downloaded to a temp location but the file is never opened and presented to the user. If the pdf option is set to open within Firefox using the built in Acrobat viewer, that will open within the browser.
This did not happen with version 31 and installing this on a sandbox desktop reproduced the problem.
We are running Windows 7 operating systems. Need help to solve this. Anybody?

hello warnerm, this is a bug in the latest 32 beta 9 version which will be addressed in the release candidate 1 build which should be deployed via auto-updates to beta users tomorrow.
a workaround for the moment would be to enter '''about:config''' into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up), right-click somewhere on the page and create a new string setting with the name '''browser.safebrowsing.appRepURL''' and value '''https://sb-ssl.google<i></i>.com/safebrowsing/clientreport/download?key=%GOOGLE_API_KEY%'''
for reference see [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1057764 bug #1057764] (please don't post in bug reports, but vote for the bug if you want to see it fixed)

Some Applications Won't Open

Hi. So, just randomly one day some of the application on my Mac stopped opening and it's been a few days and they still won't. I tried shutting the computer down and restarting it, deleting a lot of stuff, and even using different accounts but nothing seems to be changing anything. Most of the applications are fine but Pages, Numbers, iPhoto, and maybe some other ones I haven't tried yet just aren't opening. When you click on them it says they're open but there's nothing on the screen. You can quit out of the application but really... there's nothing to quit out of. And if you leave it "open" for long enough then when you click on it it tells you to force quit. I'd really appreciate some help on how to fix this because nothing seems to be working. Thanks!

You could check in the various logs in Console (in Utilities) for any messages that appear to be related. Might also not hurt (but maybe not help) to run Permissions repair in Disk Utility.

Disk Utility: Application Fails To Open / Must Force Quit

Hi-
My Disk Utility application opens but hangs on the "Gathering Disk Information" screen and I get the spinning wheel of doom. I let it spin for minutes/hours and it doesn't seem to matter. I have to Force Quit to get out of it.
I searced for a preference file to try trashing it and creating a new one but no luck in my search by name.
Any help would be great. Thanks!

It sounds like it's hanging on the disk check.
Boot up holding command-r keys into your Recovery Volume.
The screen should give you these choices...
Restore from TM backup
Reinstall Mac OS X
Get help online
Disk Utility
Run Disk Utility > Repair Disk, if you get errors run until no errors reported or reports "the disk cannot be fixed".

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