Why would Illustrator CC only function if I open it in an alternate log in (Mac)?

I've had issues with Illustrator CC not launching. I've  tried all suggestions including deactivating my Suitcase Fusion 2 fonts.
As it turns out, if I log out as my normal log in identity and log in as an alternate log in, the program works fine. Not very practical or an
efficient way to work but the Adobe experts at trouble shooting  think it's a great solution. They must work for the government during the day.
Doe anyone have a better solution? Thanks!

Hi drkarlosi,
The problem here is that Ai does not have sufficient permission to create the preferences in this folder. Ideally these preferences are created by Ai on launching itself. To make it work you will need to temporary change the access permissions of the 'Adobe Illustrator 17 Settings' folder to make ut work with your current user.
You can go through this apple help document to change the permissions on this folder:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH6732
Temporarily you can copy paste the Ai preferences from another user to this user. This should work for you but still Ai might crash on quit as it will need to write some preferences on quit as well. So, best case is to fix the root cause itself.
Please let me know if I should provide a video showing what needs to be done here.
Thanks!

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