Dakota, I am not certain this will work, but it can't hurt and often fixes assorted ills:
Restart in Safe Mode by holding down a shift key while booting. This is usually a slow boot and will force the system to perform some background "housekeeping" including a file system check. After it is fully booted this way, just restart again and when done, go immediately to your Disk Utility and Repair Permissions on your drive.
Harv