There now appears to be some further action in Finder as the “gear wheel” in 
the bottom right is spinning but only two item appear “mail”  which does not 
open and a folder labelled “utilities”.
> On 24 Mar 2016, at 1:18 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
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> Hi Barry,
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> Have you tried restarting your Mac?
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> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
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> On 24 Mar 2016, at 1:04 PM, Barry Sexstone <bjsexst...@netspace.net.au 
> <mailto:bjsexst...@netspace.net.au>> wrote:
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>> I have just updated my iMac to 10.11.4 via the App Store.  All appeared to 
>> go normally until I tried to open Safari from the dock after the update when 
>> I got the message “Safari cannot be opened as the application may be damaged 
>> or incomplete”  The same problem occurs with all the other applications I 
>> have tried. I then tried to open applications from the finder but the 
>> applications do not show in the finder.
>> I have a couple of questions as regards this problem.
>> 1. Has any-one any idea why this has happened?
>> 2. Is there any way to recover the applications apart from restoring from 
>> backup either time machine or CCC backup?
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>> Thanks
>> 
>> Barry
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>> iMac Retina 5K 27"
>> Intel i% 
>> 24GB RAM
>> 1.0 TB HD
>> OS X 10.11.4 ?
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