Possible Corrupt Account or File Permission Issue

I have been trying to find the right area to post this in. I have a 1 month old iMac with all the latest updates. I have been having an issue with only 2 applications of the Adobe CS5 suite (Fireworks CS5 and Acrobat 9). The rest of the apps work just fine and I can see al the plist files and folders created in my user library.
The other 2 applications for some reason get stuck at the splash screen and I can see on Fireworks that its is during the "Initializing User Files" phase. Nothing is being created for these apps. I have uninstalled and reinstalled more than 5 times. I have used the Adobe Cleaner script and made sure that all .com files and any .plist files are not there.
I did create a new Admin User Account. When i log out of my main account and go into this new account all the apps work just fine. So there is nothing wrong with the install, it is my main user account that is not allowing these two apps to do its thing.
I have done the disk utility repair permissions trick and that did not do anything.
Any other suggestions would be great.

No ideas, just that I have a somewhat similar but different problem with Adobe InCopy CS4. One particular computer -- I do what I try to make a complete virgin install, wiping the previous version out with the InCopy uninstaller, running the CS cleaner (it does CS4 and CS3 as well as 5). When I launch the app, it comes up and I can click on menu options (well, the menu options that are active with no file open). Then if I try to Open a file, or New a file, the program hangs and can only be stopped via Force Quit.
This is true in the user's account, and the account with admin privs, and I even turned on the root account and did a delete and reinstall from there, and it still would hang on any file open/creation.
I have multiple installs of InCopy and all of CS4 on various and sundry other user machines, and they work just fine. And after all the uninstall/install cycles I gave up (this user will have to run InCopy from another machine) I installed Photoshop and it worked with no problems.

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The second permission issue is moving jpeg files to the DVD or to a windows machine on the network. I am the owner of the files and all the folders are marked read and write. I also have checked windows file sharing.
I have also done the repair permission route.
I am new to Macs, so this is probably a simple ix, it just does not show up in the searches I have made in the Help menu or support topics. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Thanks for the tip, but I have tried every known fix listed anywhere and still am missing something somewhere. I can access the correct drivers when I connect the epson directly to the laptop and it will work. I can almost access the print drivers if I use IP Print when connecting to the printer across the workgroup. Almost, in that the drivers are no longer grayed-out, but if I select them, I still get generic print driver and it ignores the Epson driver. For some reason, if I try to install the driver for the printer while it is attached to a PC on the windows nworkgroup, using windows print, the print utility will not allow me to use the print driver. It has got to be something silly that I am missing.

Possibly Corrupt Catalog .Dat Files - A Serious Problem?

This question continues from http://forums.adobe.com/thread/804620?tstart=-1.
The three .dat files (backupCt.dat, collstatus.dat and tagstatus.dat) in one of our Adobe\Catalog Folders subfolders ("Paintings") may be corrupted. Whereas these files appear to be rewritten routinely, along with the thumb.5.cache file, each time Adobe Photoshop Elements is opened to one or another of our catalogs, the three files have not been rewritten for the Paintings catalog since 3/9/11, although that catalog has been opened almost every day. This situation came to my attention because the three files showed up in error messages in the Second Copy backup program I run every night, saying that the three files could not be copied because access is denied. In my previous post (referenced above), MichelBParis suggested that I could delete those files safely and that they would be rewritten when the catalog was next opened. However, I can't delete the files, rename them, or move them elsewhere because of the access denied status (I get an error message asking me to be sure that the disk is not full or write protected [which it is not] and that the files are not currently in use [which they are not, at least as far as I can tell -- Adobe Photoshop Elements has been closed when I have attempted all procedures, and I don't see any other applications or processes running, as per Task Manager, that I can immediately identify as belonging to Adobe). I have thought about restarting the computer in Safe Mode to see if I can delete the files then. However, I am a bit nervous about trying this, as the Paintings catalog in question is huge and of enormous importance to my wife -- I don't want to do something that might inadvertently make it impossible to access or use that catalog (as happened to us once before when we were using Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2, and the catalog became corrupted).
My questions:
(1) Does anyone know what these three .dat files actually do? I've not so far been able to find this information via Google.
(2) If these files remain in their present state (access denied and non-rewritten), do we run the risk of ending up with a serious problem down the road and loss of our ability to access the catalog (or some other loss of functionality)?
(3) Would it be safe for me in fact to delete these three files if I can find a way to do so (e.g., in Safe Mode)?
(4) If it would, indeed, be safe for me to delete the files, and if that would seem to be a next step to try, are there any suggestions for how I could go about doing so?
(5) Any other suggestions about how I can get the Paintings catalog back in proper shape?
Thanks for any help anyone can provide!

Most likely the files are not corrupt if your basis is that the backup program cannot open the files. However, I would be concerned about the security settings in the files if multiple users need to access the same catalog. This might be why you aren't seeing any changes to the time/date because one of the user doesn't have rights to modify the file.
Please tell me what OS you are running and what version of PsE?
For PsE 9 (and I think 8), you can modify the media-analysis options from the Organizer...
Menu 'Edit->Preferences->Media-Analysis'
Uncheck either checkbox as shown in the red circles
After hitting 'OK', exit the organzier and reboot.
See if you can access the .Dat files.
Instead of copying the catalog, I would just create a new empty catalog. This can be done as follows...
Menu 'File->Catalog...'
Make sure you note where the current catalog is located before you continue. The name of the current catalog is found in the box at the bottom of the dialog with [Current] added to the end of the name. Now...
Click on 'New...'
Enter the new catalog name.
Click on 'OK'
The organizer will use the new catalog. You will now see nothing is in the organzier.
See if you can access the .dat files. You may need to reboot.
You can select the previous catalog as follows...
Menu 'File->Catalog...'
Click on the previous catalog name
Click 'Open'
There is something not right with the security settings especially if you want multiple users to be able and access the catalog. As far as how things got messed up -- I have no idea. Some possible options are that one user has more rights than another user. The one with more rights created the files just fine but the other user has no way to read the files. Or someone was messing with the security settings.
Security settings in Windows can get very complex very fast. I hesitate attempting to walk through this can be done because there could be many factors which has caused this issue. You could have specific security settings on the files which override parent directory security settings. Or the parent directory security setting could simply be wrong.
You first need to determine if both users need write access to the catalog. If this is the case and they are not administrators, I would go ahead and set the security settings on the folder containing the catalog. You do need to be careful so you don't remove security settings such that you cannot even make changes to the security settings. Make sure you give full control to "This folder, subfolders, and files" in the Permission Entry dialog.
I would encourage you to look at the effective permissions on all files in the catalog after making any changes and before you start up PsE again. I have no idea what would happen if the security setting was wrong on a single file. This could cause a corrupted catalog depending on how PsE is written.

File permission issues after copying from hard drive

Hi there,
I've copied my Sites folder (containing lots of HTML, CSS, PHP files) from a Time Machine backup that lives on an external hard drive onto my new MacBook Air running Lion.
Now, I can't edit any of the files. Here are the errors I'm getting:
http://d.pr/1jlu
I've already tried the following system/preference changes:
Make sure the Time Machine "2 week lock" is disabled
Make sure the folder (and subfolders) are not locked via "get info"
Make sure I have read/write permissions for the folder/files
See:
http://d.pr/Iiee
I'm going crazy! Nothing seems to help? What else can I try to get back permission to edit my own files? (Not very familiar with Terminal unfortunately).
Help please!
Kai

Puck84 wrote:
So my hard disk crashed and when I installed the new one I tried using the setup program to restore my mac settings from my Time Machine backup. But for some reason the process continued to freeze halfway.
That sounds like something's corrupted on your backups. Try to repair them, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
If that finds and fixes errors, your best bet will be to do a full system restore, per #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum). That will bring everything back, just as it was, permissions and all.
If that doesn't work, the problem with your HD may have damaged your installation of OSX and/or some of your data, which Time Machine backed-up. So try it again, but choose an earlier backup, from before all the trouble started.

File permission issues when sharing project

Hi,
We are sharing a project amongst two developers that each have an account on a (Windows 7) machine. They are part of a windows group and don't develop at the same time. All directories and files are in the group and are set to inherit permissions. After one user develops using Labview, all the files that he saved when using Labview have the group permission removed and the second developer can no longer open the files. Our sys admins claim Labview is somehow changing the permissions. Has anyone seen/overcome this?
Thanks,
Steve

Where is the file being saved?
No place special. We have a labview project/ directory under our own directory under C:/ that roots all the Labview project files.
If both users have full access to the directory where the files are being saved, there shouldn't be any problems. I'm sure LabVIEW isn't doing anything to change access rights.
Both users have full access. If I create a new file it has the correct permissions (a local group).
I'm concerned about the comment "part of a windows group"? Most PC's in a corporate environment are part of an actual network domain, and don't use that poorman's excuse for network access rights of a workgroup that Windows seems to want to use for standalone PC's and those not registered onto a network.
I wouldn't be too concerned =) We have a nationwide federated domain. The "group" is a local group on the computer for two people specifically to share this labview project.
Steve

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<<<< package and imports ommited >>>>
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     * or a command line
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
JSP snippet
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
<%
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%>
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It looks like you might need to give your JSP permission to delete the file that it is complaining about. One way to do this would be to add a FilePermission to the server's security policy file (located at <PE install dir>/domains/domain1/config/server.policy. Adding the following would grant file delete permissions to all files for all codebases...
grant{
permission java.io.FilePermission "<<ALL FILES>>", "delete";
After modifying the policy file, you will need to restart the domain by executing the following...
<PE install dir>/bin/asadmin stop-domain
<PE install dir>/bin/asadmin start-domain
It is also possible to further restrict permissions to certain codebases or further open the set of file permissions (adding write, read, delete for example). For more information on how to do this, please refer to the J2SE security documentation loacted at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/security/permissions.html .

[FIXED] File permission issues.

Hi all,
I am unable to save over files without first giving a text editor with root privileges (sudo leafpad file_name).
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Anyone got any suggestions as to how I can fix this?
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Last edited by Gwynplaine (2014-11-13 13:33:31)

Hi there,
I was working through what you asked me to do and I noticed something.
The output of ls -l of the files that I am unable to modify stated that I didn't have modification privileges for certain files. I checked the properties through the file manager and it said that it was owned by root and that I could not modify.
The files in question are things like .bashrc, .bash_profile and the rc.lua (awesome wm). These have been copied from /etc/skel and /etc/xdg/awesome to /home/ and ~/.config/awesome/ respectively.
I haven't had much of a need to save over non-configuration files as of yet, and have been using root privileges to do so assuming that there was an issue with all files but after doing your test I could see that there was no issue with other files. I also tried to save over a few others and everything worked fine.
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We did find one work around for accessing WebDAV via IE, but I'd like them to use the console if possible.
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Ray,
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IE uses webDAV but the others just download the doc and it must be resaved.
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JUST InDesign on the new iMac and opening files on the network.
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[http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config about:config]
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I have gone to Get Info and unlocked then I find it locked again.
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Thanks for the tip, but I have tried every known fix listed anywhere and still am missing something somewhere. I can access the correct drivers when I connect the epson directly to the laptop and it will work. I can almost access the print drivers if I use IP Print when connecting to the printer across the workgroup. Almost, in that the drivers are no longer grayed-out, but if I select them, I still get generic print driver and it ignores the Epson driver. For some reason, if I try to install the driver for the printer while it is attached to a PC on the windows nworkgroup, using windows print, the print utility will not allow me to use the print driver. It has got to be something silly that I am missing.

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Each Time Machine restore was flawless.
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After clicking on Firefox.app I get "Profile Missing Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible."
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I've repaired permissions several times, and the disk utility (and Onyx) don't report any problems. A very similar problem occurs for MS Office problems. When I launch Excel (or any other office app) I get an error message saying that the MS Office Database can't be used. Also interesting is that it builds the font cache every time. If I'm not mistaken the font cache and Office database are also stored in profiles, but not under ~/Library
Short story long, after a Time Machine restore some apps can't seem to write profile information, but the file permissions look correct and Disk Utility can't find any problems with my new disk.
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Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,204,886,016 bytes)
Model: WDC WD10TPVT-00HT5T1
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Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
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Medium Type: Rotational
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
Writable: Yes
BSD Name: disk0s1
Macintosh HD:
Capacity: 999.86 GB (999,860,912,128 bytes)
Available: 668.89 GB (668,892,172,288 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s2
Mount Point: /

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sudo chown -R `id -un`:`id -gn` ~
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