Adobe Acrobat Pro wants to make changes.

Since a while I use now OS X 10.9 and every time when I open Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, the dialoge comes up "Adobe Acrobat Pro wants to make changes . Type your password to allow this. I use the other products as well like Dreamweaver and Photoshop of the CS4 package but don't have any issues there.

Sabian, I looked at the suggested link, but don't have experience with OS X to know really how to do this. Since it seems to be the self healing feature, I tried the following and it worked.
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I found a fix, but it may not be a smart thing... Thoughts are appreciated as I'm not terribly saavy with OS X. I read that this may have something to do with the self heal feature and there were a few posts that talked about editing a SHInit.xml file. What if I just renamed that file? If it broke something, I could always rename it back – or uninstall/reinstall as a last resort.
I right-clicked on the Adobe Acrobat Pro.app and selected "Show Package Contents." In the Contents folder is the MacOS folder and in MacOS is the SHInit.xml file. I copied the file to my desktop and then renamed the file in the MacOS folder to something obvious: ##SHInit.xml.
Now, when I run Adobe Acrobat Pro.app, it loads without requiring a password.
If anyone has any burning reasons as to why and how this is dangerous, I'd be interested in hearing your feedback.
Thanks!

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… that’s the dialogue window I get every time I launch Acrobat Pro 9.0.0 (on Mac OS 10.9.4), or double-click on a .pdf file to open it.
Acrobat Pro opens and works OK once I’ve typed in my password, but I really don’t think I should need to type my password every time I want to use Acrobat - how can I fix it?
Thanks for any help.

Hi Thomas,
This screen is asking for your Computer Password to make the necessary changes. It's Mac mechanism to authenticate whether you are the Admin user or not.
Try deleting the user caches and that should fix the issue : http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/08/delete-user-caches-in-mac-os-x/
You might also want to refer to the thread : Repeated 'mac OS X wants to make changes' prompt | Apple Support Communities
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No doubt this is the wrong forum for this question, but there really does not appear to be "the" appropriate forum.
Every time I open Adobe Acrobat Pro, which I just installed, as well as other Adobe products, such as Photoshop, which I've used for a while, a dialog appears with the message, "Adobe Acrobat Pro [or whatever] wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."
I searched in the forums here and saw that other users have had similar problems, but didn't find a solution. It obviously is annoying to have to enter my password every time I open Adobe products. Could someone tell me what is going on and how I can fix it?
My OS is Mac Lion.
Thank you.

Do you have Acrobat 9?
If yes, please try following steps:
1. Repair your current Acrobat installation
a. Launch Acrobat
b. Go to Help->Repair Acrobat Installation
c. Check all the components and press Continue
Missing components will be repaired
2. Now, update your Acrobat.
Go to Help->Check for updates
Update your Acrobat to latest version i.e. 952
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The message "Type your password to allow Adobe Acrobat Pro to make changes" now appears whenever I launch Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.4.2 on Mac OS 10.6.5. I am forced to enter my Mac password before every time I want to use Acrobat -- very frustrating. The problem did not used to happen. I think I recently installed an Acrobat update which might have caused this problem to happen. I am logged in as an admin user.
Here's what I tried. None of these things resolved the problem for me.
Repair disk permissions.
Restart the Mac.
Deleted the key called selfhealingfilename in SHinit.xml.
How do I resolve this?

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1. Repair your current Acrobat installation
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Go to Help->Check for updates
Update your Acrobat to latest version i.e. 942
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PDF does not contain columns, rows, formats, styles, or other aspects of word processing or spreadsheet file formats.
This is because PDF is decidedly not a word processing or spreadsheet file format or something "like" one of those.
(see ISO 32000 for what PDF "is")
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