New / Old Apps bouncing in the doc, crashing on open

[mrpbennett]

I work on a MBA mid 2012 - 1.8GHz i5 4GB - running 10.10.4 yet after a couple of dodgy restarts. Certain apps now won't open, they just bounce in the dock then close. Some of the apps are day to day apps like chrome.

I have looked into verifying the disk permissions as well as repairing them. That didn't seem to do the trick neither did deleting the library files.

Any ideas? I don't fancy rebuilding it, but ill have to if it continues.

 

[Taz Mangus]

I work on a MBA mid 2012 - 1.8GHz i5 4GB - running 10.10.4 yet after a couple of dodgy restarts. Certain apps now won't open, they just bounce in the dock then close. Some of the apps are day to day apps like chrome.

I have looked into verifying the disk permissions as well as repairing them. That didn't seem to do the trick neither did deleting the library files.

Any ideas? I don't fancy rebuilding it, but ill have to if it continues.

Try creating a new user, reboot and login to the new user. Does the issue still happen?

 

[Weaselboy]

Assuming you did not install or do something that caused this, what you are describing sounds like a failing drive. Try a command-r boot to recovery and use Disk Utility to run a verify disk and see if that reports any errors.

If you have not already done so, now would be a good time to run a good backup before the drive completely fails.