Urgent help required. Several apps won't launch. MBP OSX 10.9.

[KingAndaval]

As per title.

I installed Mavericks today and all was fine for about 6 or 7 hours. All of a sudden several apps won't launch. They either 'bounce' once or fail to open, or don't bounce at all.

Here's a list of apps that it happens on (NOTE - only Apple apps seem to be affected):

App Store
iCal
Pages
Numbers
Keynote
iMovie*
Terminal
iBooks
QuickTime
& more.

For contrast, apps that do work:

Mail
iTunes
Logic X
iPhoto
System Prefs
Finder
& more.

Here's what I've done so far to no avail:

Repaired disk permissions
Deleted plist files in ~/Library/Preferences
Booted in safe mode
Created a new user and checked in that user.


If anyone can shed any light I'd be so happy. I'm pulling my hair out here!

Cheers.

 

[KingAndaval]

I think I might have sorted it. BatChmod seems to be solving the issues.

Edit: Or not... It fixed iMovie but nothing else.

 

[iThink Apple]

I think I might have sorted it. BatChmod seems to be solving the issues.

Edit: Or not... It fixed iMovie but nothing else.

Was it a fresh install? Did you try to restart your Mac?

 

[KingAndaval]

Was it a fresh install? Did you try to restart your Mac?

Yeah I've restarted several times. The install of Mavericks was an upgrade from the last release of Mountain Lion.

 

[iThink Apple]

Yeah I've restarted several times. The install of Mavericks was an upgrade from the last release of Mountain Lion.

Did you backup your Mac before upgrading?

 

[KingAndaval]

Did you backup your Mac before upgrading?

Unfortunately not. Error of judgement, on my part, it seems!

 

[iThink Apple]

Is BatChmod compatible wit Mavericks....Never heard of that software before. That may be causing the issue.

 

[Animalk]

What does the Console spit out when you try launching those apps?

 

[KingAndaval]

Is BatChmod compatible wit Mavericks....Never heard of that software before. That may be causing the issue.

Batchmod is just a clever little programme to quickly change permissions on files.

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What does the Console spit out when you try launching those apps?

(com.apple.appstore.45616 [775]) Exited with code: 1

 

[KingAndaval]

Update:

So I managed to get a friend to download the install file for Mavericks and have reinstalled it.

Everything's fixed apart from iWork. Weird.