After upgrading to mavericks, all my downloaded apps crash

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After upgrading to mavericks, all my downloaded apps crash

Hey guys-

I upgraded to mavericks 2 days ago and love the os and the look and feel. the thing is, i have a bunch of downloaded apps like openoffice and parallels desktop and after the appstore upgrade, the apps just plain freeze up. Any ideas on how to fix this issue? Help would be greatly appreciated as i need to use some apps for work as well.

MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 24, 2013 5:19 PM

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PlotinusVeritas

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Oct 24, 2013 5:30 PM in response to macmacma...

Open Office works fine on Mavericks on 4 machines of mine, 2 mac mini, macbook pro, and macbook Air.

So, open office DOES work in Mavericks.

repair disk, and last resort reinstall Maverciks

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1452

Reset SMC

Shut down the computer.
Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if its not already connected.
On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time.
Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.

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macmacma... Author

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Oct 24, 2013 5:26 PM in response to PlotinusVeritas

thx so i repair disk and permissions also? I'll do that on spot and let you know if it works

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macmacma... Author

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Oct 24, 2013 5:38 PM in response to macmacma...

... so guess what? I had the incorrect number of hard links and had to boot into the recovery partition to fix it. now that it is fixed it (theorettically) should work fine. thanks for your help and for helping others who also might need it too.

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Oct 24, 2013 5:44 PM in response to macmacma...

great news 😊

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