Most of the application fail to launch

apple are aware of the issues, but from what I've experinced over the past few day's they actuallu don't care, they have no fix for this problem other than buy a newer machine, as a claen reboot doesn't work either as mine won't accept the restore discs that came with my Imac any more due to bios update etc, Apple from what I can tell are washing there hands of the matter, hoping it will go away etc or customers will just bite the bullit and buy new systems.

I've got an appiontemnt with apple store on SUNDAY which apperently is the earliest I could get, when I first called them on Tuesday, a CS callw a arragend as a high priority, but I've never heard from them at all, arranged another one own cost?.what a **** take or what.

I think my Imac isnow fit for spares and parts basically, as to get it to work it will need new logic board, HD etc and other parts to sort it

Boot into Safe Mode, Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode, reboot normally and try the apps again.

Nobody seems to have suggested to repair the disk permissions.

If you can't open Disk Utility, boot the machine from the recovery partition (Hold Option when turning the machine on and select the apropiate one or simpley hold Command + R at startup).

From there you can use Disk Utility, and since you are there try looking for problems in the directory structure as well.

http://www.apple.com/support/ then select your product. File your report there. That is the only way to get Apple's attention. Not here ... this is user-to-user support.

I will do it. Thanks Brian. I was wondering if you have a solution to the problem? Because I am seriously dying with this! Many suggested the clean install after backing up the data. But when I bought my mac, I got it with the snow leopard and i have those discs! So does that mean, I need to install the Snow Leopard and then update it to Mavericks again! ? 😟

Sorry, I don't. The only problems I am having are with Mail. Apply Rules no longer works. I called Apple and got bumped up to a higher level tech who talked me into deleting then re-installing my eMail account. The problem was in my Sent folder which would not respond to Aply Rules, nor could I drag and drop the items into the folder where they belonged! The problem was solved by re-installing my account ... NOT! All of the Sent items disappeared ... gone ... vanished 😮

Vanished? ****!

Yes ... not to be found. Tech says, "Oh, yes, that's because you deleted the Account. You can get them back from your server." Unfortunately, not ... Most of my past messages were moved to their folders, but as soon as I upgraded to Mavericks, Apply Rules no longer worked, and drag and drop did not work, so there were quite a few in Sent. Pfffft! Gone ...

I tried the safe mode technique but, no luck! :|

Try installing Java.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?viewlocale=en_US

Photoshop wouldn't launch from Finder w/o it. Strangely it would launch from Terminal running the executable directly, i.e. "

/Applications/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS5/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS5.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS5"

Java is already installed.

You can get an incident started here and either schedule a call back or call them, you get a number to reference:

http://www.apple.com/support/osx/contact/

Previously Preview used to work properly, now even Preview stopped working 😟 Yesterday, I got update notifications on the Mac for iLife and iWork. These applications got updated, though the AppStore still refuses to open up.

Hey, I just fixed this by resetting my display to mirror the displays since I have it connected to my TV. This now shows the programs which seem like they haven't been working. Apparently, the OS must reset this setting to the default. I hope this fixes your problems too!

Absolutely the same trouble here in cold Russia.

Have stopped maps, messages, appstore etc.

A tiny good news from Apple in last three years would be nice.