Hi Barry,

After the update installation completed and you logged in, did you allow time 
for Spotlight to reindex the HD?
And also run Software Update and install any updates that showed?

You could try open: 
Finder > Preferences, select the Sidebar button at the top and deselect 
'Applications' from the Show these items in the sidebar section -  then 
reselect it. 
That may help. 

If it doesn't help, open a new Finder window and go to the top level of your HD 
(Macintosh HD?) 
You should see the Applications folder there so just drag it to where it used 
to be in the sidebar.

Cheers,
Ronni

13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage

El Capitan OS X 10.11.4


> On 24 Mar 2016, at 1:28 PM, Barry Sexstone <bjsexst...@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> 
> 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 
>> <mailto:ro...@mac.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Barry,
>> 
>> Have you tried restarting your Mac?
>> 
>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>> 
>> 
>> On 24 Mar 2016, at 1:04 PM, Barry Sexstone <bjsexst...@netspace.net.au 
>> <mailto:bjsexst...@netspace.net.au>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Barry
>>> 
>>> 
>>> iMac Retina 5K 27"
>>> Intel i% 
>>> 24GB RAM
>>> 1.0 TB HD
>>> OS X 10.11.4 ?



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