macpro osx 10.9. applications in doc show 2, opening it the page remains gray. going to the apple icon and clicking on software updates, after a minute of the bouncing A, the page opens to gray and the wheel of fortune cursor keeps going. after about a couple of minutes, i'm able to close it.
there is no data when opening applications..
thank you for any help you can provide.

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