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The Inkscape icon shows up on the dock and it bounces for a while but no windows ever show up. I never get prompted for the location of X11. It eventually stops bouncing and it says 'Application Not Responding' when you 'right-click' on the icon. Often here having one or more web browser windows open and then clicking either the pinned icon for File Explorer or on a shortcut in the additional addon type Quick Launch toolbar the explorer will be on top until you click on something else already opened. Sims 2 Icon bounces but won't open. Discussion in 'Mac and PC Games' started by emiliengood, Dec 17, 2008. I installed sims 2 and the icon bounces then disappears. Open the first one (the patch) and click on the installer and follow the directions. Next, open the second file (the update), and drag the new Sims 2 icon to your Sims 2.

The Dock is the main application launcher for OS X. With a long history pre-dating OS X, the Dock has developed into a very versatile utility for Mac users. That is, they appear when you open a document or app and choose to minimize it, and then disappear when you close the document or app or choose to maximize the window. That special. Now that you're in the Library folder, open the Preferences folder. The Preferences folder contains all of the plist files for each app installed on your Mac. It also contains quite a few other files, but the only ones we're interested in are ones that end with.plist. When a launch certain apps, the icon just bounces and the app never launches. I end up having to force quite and restart to get the app to work. And then I click to open it, the icon stays bouncing forever in my dock. If I click again on it, it just disappears. It happened to me with Bodega or Skydrive. I get the hourglass for a second. Feb 07, 2013  Some programs start then immediately close. I have found that some programs have begin to exhibit this behavior when I try to open them: The program appears to open momentarily and then closes immediately. In some cases, there is a variant behavior, the program opens and immediately displays an introductory dialog box asking me to make a choice.

One common cause of such a problem is a corrupted preference file. Look for the application's preference file(s) in the /Home/Library/Preferences/ folder. Another possibility is a corrupted support file in the /Home/Library/Applications Support/ folder.
Before trying to reinstall the program be sure you have properly uninstalled it:
Uninstalling Software: The Basics
Most OS X applications are completely self-contained 'packages' that can be uninstalled by simply dragging the application to the Trash. Most applications create preference files which are stored in the /Home/Library/Preferences/ folder. Although they do nothing once you delete the associated application, they do take up some disk space. If you want you can located them in the above location and delete them, too.
Some applications may install an uninstaller program that can be used to remove the application. In some cases the uninstaller may be part of the application's installer, and is invoked by clicking on a Customize button that will appear during the install process.
Some applications may install components in the /Home/Library/Applications Support/ folder. You can also check there to see if the application has created a folder. You can also delete the folder that's in the Applications Support folder. Again, they don't do anything but take up disk space once the application is trashed.
Some applications may install a startupitem or a Log In item. Startupitems are usually installed in the /Library/StartupItems/ folder and less often in the /Home/Library/StartupItems/ folder. Log In Items are set in the Accounts preferences. Open System Preferences, click on the Accounts icon, then click on the LogIn Items tab. Locate the item in the list for the application you want to remove and click on the '-' button to delete it from the list.
If an application installs any other files the best way to track them down is to do a Finder search using the application name or the developer name as the search term.
There are also several shareware utilities that can uninstall applications:
AppZapper
CleanApp
Yank
SuperPop
Uninstaller
Spring Cleaning
Look for them at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

For more information visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on removing software.
For additional help contact the software developer's tech support.

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I have a game (Borderlands 2: Game of the Year edition) directly purchased through the App Store. I've been playing this game for a month until it started to have this error everytime I launch it: the application just keeps bouncing on the dock and does not open even for an hour of waiting. Force Quit option do not work but when I click on the 'bouncing' icon on the dock, it disappears. The application is not the 'Force Quit application' list when I hit command + option + esc. Any workaround on this error?

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Disclaimer: I do not own Borderlands 2 and so I cannot predict what the results of this process will be. Your safest bet is to go the Mac App Store page for Borderlands 2 and use the Borderlands 2 Support link. All Mac App Store apps are required to have a ‘support’ link, although some are more useful than others. The one for Borderlands 2 looks like it will lead to actual, official support, so I suggest you try that first.

That being said, the following is the troubleshooting technique that I use when trying to figure out why a Mac App Store app won’t launch.

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Use at your own risk, etc. Remember that I’m just some guy on the Internet (allegedly!) giving you free, un-guaranteed advice. I almost always have a complete, recent, fully bootable backup on my Mac just in case something goes wrong. So should you, especially before mucking around with stuff.

1) Quit The App

We’re going to be moving the app’s preferences file, and you don’t want to do that when it is running. That would be a bad idea.

2) Use the Finder:

  • Use the Go → Go to Folder menu item
  • Enter ~/Library/Containers/ as shown here:

Click “Go” (or press Enter) and you will see all of the various “Containers” used on your Mac.

n.b.: Tread carefully. Apple hides the ~/Library/ folder because mucking around in there can cause problems.

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This is what mine looks like:

Yours will look different but similar. Hopefully you will be able to tell which one goes to the you are trying to fix.

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I am going to use com.multimarkdown.composer.mac (MultiMarkdown Composer 2) just because it’s easier to work with a specific example.

Find the “Saved Application State” folder for the app which will not open.

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You will find it inside the app’s “Container” folder (above) → Data → Library → Saved Application State

Inside that folder will be one more, which ends with “.savedState” and contains the information used to restore the windows which were open when you quit the app.

Move that folder to the Desktop, or even the Trash if you want. Then re-launch the misbehaving app.

If it still won’t launch I’d repeat the process but instead look inside the ”Preferences” folder instead of ”Saved Application State” and I’d look for the file which doesn’t look like a link or an alias (in this case, com.multimarkdown.composer.mac.plist) and I would copy that file to the Desktop or the Trash, understanding that I was effectively deleting all of my saved preferences. Then re-launch the misbehaving app.

If that didn’t work, well, then I’d probably do something desperate like move the app’s entire folder from ~/Library/Containers/ (such as ~/Library/Containers/com.multimarkdown.composer.mac/) to the Desktop or the Trash and try one last time.

After that I might even delete the app and download it again from the Mac App Store.

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my friend is having the same problem with league of legends. It helped when he reinstalled it.

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Plist is the key. I had this problem before too!

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