Having Admin Account problem

Question

I recently joined the Adobe Creative Cloud and downloaded many of the applications I use. Some of those applications will not open and in working with an Adobe service rep we discovered that it has something to do with my current Admin Account. I've also used Disk Utility and repaired permissions (from the install CD). I don't know how to correct this problem. I still have CS5 versions of my applications and they all work. Will doing a OS Recovery be a solution? If I did reimage my system and restored my files from timemachine wouldn't my admin problem follow me?
Don't know what to do next, so any advise would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Disk Utility does not repair permissions in a user's account. It would be helpful if you had a clue as to what is supposedly the problem with your admin account.
Have you tried creating a new user account, logging into the new account, and running these programs? Do you know if these programs are supposed to run on a Mac? Might they be Windows programs?
At present I don't know what help we can be. I can tell you how to reset permissions on your admin account for what that is worth:
Reset User Permissions and ACLs in Lion/Mountain Lion
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
From the Utilities menu select Terminal. At the Terminal prompt enter: resetpassword. Press RETURN. When the window opens select your startup drive where it says "Select the volume containing the user account:" At the bottom of the window you will see, "Reset Home folder permissions and ACLs." Click on the Reset button.
You cannot repair permissions in Lion from an installer disc. You need to do the following:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions - Lion/Mountain Lion
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list.  In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive.  If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported then click on the Repair Permissions button. When the process is completed, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.