Two users, one problem

I bought a Powermac G5 used (barely used for a year) and when I brought it home, I thought I was changing the account name, etc., to my own, but instead I ended up adding myself as a second admin account. I didn't think anything was really wrong until I realized that I could use every single program on the computer under my own account EXCEPT for Final Cut Pro. It shows up as an application under my account, but when I try to use it, it loads up all the way to the end, but then instead of opening, it quits. When I switch over to the other account, it opens no problem. So I thought I could fix the problem by deleting the other account (I saved the file in the Deleted Users File just in case), but that didn't work. Everything works fine on the computer except I still can't open FCP. I don't have the original OS X Tiger disks so I can't reload that way. If I buy used Tiger disks or Leopard, could that fix the problem? Can anybody help me with this? Thanks in advance!

ig88rox wrote:
This sounds kinda scary.
It's only diagnostic. It looks scary because I put it all on the command line so it could be cut-and-pasted. Basically what I would WANT to do is just change ownership of FCP to your new user (using the Terminal chown command), and make sure said user can access all the files in FCP (using chmod). But that is pointless if your current user can already access all the files, and will likely break things further if some of the files deliberately have special ownerships (such as root) and/or the setuid or setgid bits set. So the scary line checks if any of that is the case. If you would prefer it as a script, I can probably convert it and give you a download link. (BTW, the "one-line" just means "don't put any carriage returns in the middle" not "make the Terminal window really really wide" )
do you know if it's possible to reinstate a deleted users file?
I would like to say yes, but it is better that you search the discussions. What worries me is that if it is a permissions problem, then you need to restore the deleted user with the original uid. I'm not sure that Mac OS would do that automagically. Otherwise, I would claim that you could just create a new user with the same name (and especially the same short name) as the deleted one, and then while logged in as the new user that you want to be the deleted user, REPLACE the new user's home directory (/Users/name) with the folder you put in Deleted Users. Easy for me to say, having never tried it.
Finally, only after making my last (scary) post did it occurred to me that if FCP is crashing, then it might be making an entry in the Crash Logs. So it might be worthwhile to open up the Console (I think it is in /Applications/Utilities) and look for an appropriate entry in the list on the left-hand side (if I were at my Mac right now I would be more specific so if this is confusing, just ask.) If you see an entry for FCP in the crash logs, post it. Debugging using the crash log is surely a much better bet than trying to diagnose the problem via file permissions. Unfortunately, I can't promise I will be able to parse the crash log, but hopefully someone will...

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Yet that post has, interestingly, been deleted. But you still know about it. I can only assume that you work for Apple and you deleted it.
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