Check the following locations for any recently added files, or any files implicated in error messages generated when you attempt to launch the problematic application.

Onyx 10.11.6 Mac OS X Dock

Its a frustrating scenario: You click on a regularly used application only to find that it will not launch either bouncing indefinitely in the Mac OS X Dock or simply providing no feedback whatsoever.

There are a number of potential solutions for this problem, ranging from simple and relatively quick to more tedious.

The process may take a few minutes, and you may see various messages flash by.

The process is complete when the Terminal returns to a normal prompt.

This is especially applicable in situations where a restart cures problems with application launching, as the offending process(es) will, of course, be killed by the restart process.

Launch Activity Monitor (located in ApplicationsUtilities), then find the process associated with the problematic application, then quit it and attempt re-launching the applications.

Most of the preferences files that we will be talking about are stored in a folder named Preferences, and located in the Library folder of your home directory, e.g.

Go to the LibraryPreferences folder, and search for any.plist files that may be associated with the application you are having trouble with.

Drag the.plist file(s) many applications have more than one associated.plist file, so be careful to scour for all of them to the Desktop, then re-attempt launching the application.

You can also use an application like Preferential Treatment to check for corrupt.plist files.

Onyx 10.11.6 Update Package Using

If an Apple application or component is not launching properly, you might need to restore it from the Apple installation discs per the instructions in our tutorial Re-installing Apple applications from a Mac OS X discupdate package using Pacifist.

Go from light, to medium to deep (the ordinal levels are defined differently in each application), checking to see if your afflicted application launches properly after each.

Also, check the following folder for application-specific cache files that can be deleted, or at least temporarily removed.

LibraryApplication Support (look inside the folders here for files that end with.cache, and delete them).

In these cases, the first thing to try is a disk permissions repair routine using Apples Disk Utility (located in ApplicationsUtilities).

Failing that, startup from your Mac OS X installation disc (insert it, then restart while holding down the C key).

After the startup process is complete, go to the Utilities menu and select Disk Utility.

In some odd cases (usually after a backup or when transferring backed up data back to a startup device), permissions on the MacOS directory (the directory that normally stores the executable binary in a Mac OS X application) can become incorrect.

Press return, and you will be prompted for your administrator password, which you should enter.

The MacOS directory should now have read, write and execute priveleges for the owner, and read and execute privileges for the group and others.

Apple says to follow these steps if you are affected by this issue.

You can find the latest versions for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) at If that doesnt help, continue to step 2.

Safari and other Web browsers are notorious for suffering from this issue, as are some other extensible applications like iMovie.

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