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TextEdit & Preview won't launch

May 22, 2012 4:49AM PDT

After updating to 10.7.4 from 10.7.3, TextEdit and Preview won't launch. The icons bounce for a few seconds and then nothing. Have tried repairing permissions a few times but with no luck. Disk space is not an issue (300 GB free on 750GB HD). Disk Utility reports nothing unusual with the startup volume; "verify disk" checks out fine.

Any solutions? It's driving me crazy. Thanks.

Macbook Pro 15" 2.3 Quad i7 (early 2011), 8 GB RAM.

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Did you try a new account?
May 22, 2012 4:53AM PDT
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Admin account
May 22, 2012 4:59AM PDT

Thanks, but I am not running TextEdit or Preview from anything other than an admin level account with all read/write access levels available. My user Library folder is open to full admin access.

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Good. Now make a new account and test there.
May 22, 2012 5:03AM PDT

If you read up on this, you can dig in and write "I'm the admin" or try it.

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Would like solution for admin
May 22, 2012 5:23AM PDT

Thank you. I see your point and will dig in a bit more to the thread and open a new account just for testing this theory, but ultimately I am interested in discovering a solution that will allow me to continue using my account from the admin level, just like before. Thanks for the tip.

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That's discussed at the link
May 22, 2012 5:26AM PDT

And the apple forums. But until the test is done, we don't know to try this.

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Great!
May 22, 2012 5:32AM PDT

I will definitely read up on it more and try the offered solutions -- report back. Thx.

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It may not be the exact discussion I offered.
May 22, 2012 5:39AM PDT

But the process so far has been.

1. Test it in another account (a new one!)
2. Then start looking around the old one.

There are a few that want to skip step 1.