Preview app won't open

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  1. markcas

    markcas Member

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    I hope someone can help me with this...

    My Preview app is not opening. What's happening is it just appears on the dock and will be gone in a blink. I tried restarting several times but it still acts that way. Same also happens with Quicksilver. I tried Googling this and couldn't find the solution elsewhere.

    Is there anything that I can do without re-installing Tiger?
     
    #1 markcas, Aug 1, 2006
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    Was there something you installed before this happened?

    What you could do is create another account and test if this error will occur.
     
    #2 icetraxx626, Aug 1, 2006
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    None that I know of except for a couple of Dashboard widgets. I also tried switching to my Admin account and it does the same way (both Preview and Quicksilver).

    I just realized how important Quicksilver is for me as I feel so helpless without it.
     
    #3 markcas, Aug 1, 2006
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    Have you tried re-installing quicksilver?
     
    #4 icetraxx626, Aug 1, 2006
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    Try to repair permissions as well.
     
    #5 icetraxx626, Aug 1, 2006
  6. markcas

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    Did all that...didn't work :(

    Now even Mail.app won't launch! I'm thinking of just re-installing the OS on this thing... I won't lose any files, right?
     
    #6 markcas, Aug 2, 2006
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    I think you'd lose files, back them up first to be sure... :)
     
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    do an archive and install.this will preserve your files.
     
    #8 icetraxx626, Aug 2, 2006
  9. markcas

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    Oh ok...thank you very much for all your help! Will post later if re-installing works ;)
     
    #9 markcas, Aug 2, 2006
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