Admin permissions won't let me save photoshop files
I moved my MacBook Pro to my son and made him administrator. That worked fine, but now something must have happened because he now can't save Photoshop files anymore as photoshop says he doesn't have permissions. He's running Snow Leopard as he has to use Canvas X, which won't run in Lion. Anyone have an idea what may be screwing up permissions? He did run Repair Permissions in Disk Utility. He is listed as the administrator in Accounts. He also made sure the file Get Info permissions allowed the Admin. He even changed the Get Info permissions to enable everyone.
He's just trying to save a tiff file from PhotoShop back over the original tiff on the Mac's internal hard drive.
He changed the permissions to allow everyone access on the original tiff that he had Opened in PhotoShop.
A little more history: He had an unrecoverable hard drive crash about 2 months ago. So we installed the backup drive that had a SuperDuper copy of the crashed drive that was about 3 weeks old (from the crashed drive's data).
This drive worked fine until this week when the clock reset to 2000. That's the same time the permissions problems started.
I had earlier made him the administrator, but now he had to login with my password and I was shown as the startup admin. Since I was the original owner and admin, I had placed all my applications in the top level Applications folder of the hard drive, not in my Home Applications folder; and now it appeared that he only had access to Applications in the Home folder as a User instead of Admin, thus explaining why he didn't have access to the applications he needed.
So he reset the PRAM to address the clock and other screwy things.
Now he is shown as the administrator in System Preferences>Accounts, but without the permissions of an administrator.
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