Suddenly, the following Mac apps won't open from the dock: finder, app store, calendar, mail, textedit. I've tried re-booting the machine, trashing the preferences for the specific apps, restoring the prefs from an earlier Time Machine back up. No luck.
Any ideas how to fix this gratefully received.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), 10.13.1
I would do this first:
open the apple menu, select Forcequit, select Finder, then choose "Relaunch Finder" (this also relaunches the Dock).
If that does not solve it, restart the mac while holding the Shift key (Safe Mode), it will be slow, login, see how the Dock behaves in there. Then restart normal.
Good. You say that in Mail you can "...open a Mail window by keeping the dock icon pressed and selecting 'new viewer window'". That option only occurs when Mail is already running! Can you clarify?
Yes, Mail is set as an automatically launched login item but hidden. I guess it's not the end of the world if I have to keep the dock icon pressed and select 'new viewer window' to open Mail - but it's a pain to have to open calculator from the applications folder rather than the dock.
Am looking at Activity Monitor but not sure what I'm looking out for..? After a series of re-boots all the Mac apps + Finder window appear to be launching ok from the dock - though I'm not confident that will be the case the next time I boot up!
Thanks for all your help. If you have any further suggestions as to how I can clean the machine up I'll certainly give them a try 🙂
The amoeba thing is in /Library/LaunchDaemons (this library is at the top level of your disk's directory). You can paste this path into the "Go to folder..." dialog in the Finder Go menu. The quark thing is in /System/Library/Extensions. You might be able to manage that one via System Preferences, Extensions.
Sorry, I may not have been clear: the apps have been running, since I have them listed as starting but hidden on startup. I just haven't been able to open a window from them using the dock. Anyway, it all seems to be working ok now.
Here's the hostfile stuff you wanted:
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
# Block Adobe Activation
127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sjc0.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 hl2rcv.adobe.com
# Block Adobe Activation
127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sjc0.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 hl2rcv.adobe.com
# Block Adobe Activation
127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sjc0.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 hl2rcv.adobe.com
# block Adobe activation servers
0.0.0.0 3dns-2.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 3dns-3.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 activate.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 activate-sea.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 activate-sjc0.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 adobe-dns.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 ereg.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 hl2rcv.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 practivate.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 wip3.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 activate.wip3.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 ereg.wip3.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com
# Block Adobe Activation
127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sjc0.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 hl2rcv.adobe.com
# block Adobe activation servers
0.0.0.0 3dns-2.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 3dns-3.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 activate.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 activate-sea.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 activate-sjc0.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 adobe-dns.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 ereg.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 hl2rcv.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 practivate.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 wip3.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 activate.wip3.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 ereg.wip3.adobe.com
0.0.0.0 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 lm.licenses.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 na2m-pr.licenses.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ims-na1-prprod.adobelogin.com
127.0.0.1 na4r.services.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 na1r.services.adobe.com
about this: "can't see com.quark.driver.Tether64 in system/library/extensions".
You should not mess around in the /System/Library at all: the files in there that you see, are having an other name in the etrecheck list, and deleting the wrong one can crash your system completely. Stay away from this Library.
The amoebe thing is a leftover from about 5 years ago, it was a troll that does not exist anymore, and the line in the LaunchDaemons is harmless (and thus can be deleted without penalty).
Waiting for the hosts text...
Thanks for suggestion but didn't work.
OK have tried changing permissions of items in home folder, as CT suggested. Partial success. Most of my Mac apps now open from the dock - apart from Mail and calculator. 😟
No, sorry - I assumed Calculator would open from the applications folder but it doesn't. So I now have no way of opening it at all, it seems.
Yes - launches properly both from the applications folder and the dock.
I don't recognise the bomgar stuff and cleverfiles stuff. Any idea where they might be so that I can delete them?
The Cisco videoguard stuff looks pretty sketchy.
Now Finder, Keychain Access and Mail won't open from dock.
In fact, neither Keychain access nor Mail will open form the applications folder either. Macbook has been running fan rather heavily, even when nothing much is happening. Is that significant?
Last things I can see: that amoeba instanton and com.quark.driver.Tether64 might be worth getting rid of.
mac apps won't open from dock
