Q: Persistent permission problems
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Feb 26, 2014 10:10 AMby Frank Caggiano,A few things, one those errors can safely be ignored. They are not affecting your system and they are definitly not causing the problem you are seeing.
Permission Repair in Disk Utility deals exclusively with system level files. It does nothing at the user level and will not touch permissions in users folders or in applications.
Sounds like you might have an installation problem with the application you are trying to run, How was it installed? It is intrusting that the Admin account (Work) does not have the issues, but the Standard account does.
If you make the Play account an admin account just as a test does it run OK? I'd go back through the installation steps for the application and make sure it was installed for use by all users and not just the user that installed it.
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Feb 26, 2014 10:25 AMby Frank Caggiano,Right because you don;t have a systems permission problem you have an application problem. Either it was installed incorrectly, it is not meant to run for more then one user or else it wants to be run as admin
But without knowing the app and how it was installed all we can do is guess.
it tells me that it couldn't fix some permission problems and that I have to do it myself.
Right because it is running in a standard account. So either make Play an admin account or else fix the permissions problems it is telling you it has from an admin account.
It is possible that if you make Play an admin account and run the app once it might fix what it needs to and you could then turn Play back into a standard account.
Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano
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Feb 26, 2014 10:35 AMby mindful_compassion,@ Frank Caggiano
I gave "Play" admin rights but that didn't solve any of the problems. Also, I don't think that these problems are application-specific because they are numerous and diverse. As I mentioned above, one example is that the screenshot shortcuts don't work anymore in "Play".
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Feb 26, 2014 10:35 AMby mindful_compassion,@ Frank Caggiono
The App Store always wants to update iMovie to version 10.0.2 (even though I have iMovie 11 installed and also installed to suggested update several times).
Also, when I use the "Play" account and switch to "Work" (while still being logged in in the "Play" account), the "Change Picture" option is suddenly activated in the "Desktop & Screensaver Options".
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Feb 26, 2014 11:40 AMby mindful_compassion,@ putnik
After running ACLr8, only one permission problem remained:
Group differs on “Library/Printers/InstalledPrinters.plist”; should be 80; group is 0.Permissions differ on “Library/Printers/InstalledPrinters.plist”; should be -rw-rw-rw- ; they are -rw-r--r-- .
After running "Repair Disk Permissions" again, this one disappered also. For the first time in several months, Disk Utility doesn't show any permission problems. So thank you for this tip!
However, the practical problems, of which I described a few above, still exist - even after restarting the computer.
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Feb 26, 2014 12:10 PMby putnik,I wonder if the Screenshots are being collected but put in a location that is not obvious (maybe even the other user account, as it seems you can only set the one location). Here are Terminal commands for changing the format and location.
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg (png, jpg etc)
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /users/username/Documents/ (etc)
Please tell us what "Benchmarking" application you are running and what other problems you have, if permissions are out the way now.
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Feb 26, 2014 12:39 PMby mindful_compassion,@ putnik
No, that is not the reason. Before all these problems started, I could press command + option + 4 to select the area I wanted to have a screenshot of. Now, the cursor doesn't even change to indicate that I can select an area.
The benchmark app I use is Cinebench, which worked fine until yesterday but does't anymore. The desktop background problem I described above also still exists. So functionally, nothing seems to have changed since solving the permission problems.
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Feb 26, 2014 12:56 PMby mindful_compassion,@ putnik
I just realised that I pressed the wrong key combination. With the correct shortcut, I can select an area but get the following error message: "You don’t have permission to save files in the location where screen shots are stored."
Also, there is another error. When I try to open Firefox, I get the following error message: "A copy of Firefox is already open. Only one copy of Firefox can be open at a time." (even though NO copy of Firefox is open).
I experience both problems only in the "Play" account. In the "Work" account, they don't appear.
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Feb 26, 2014 1:05 PMby putnik,That's what I meant by saying screenshots are saved in one location, presumably yours are set up to save in the admin account. You could change each time, using the terminal command, but it is a hassle. Did you try "Grab" in the Utilities folder?
Are you sure Firefox has been fully "quit" in the admin account. Possibly it is just reduced to the dock. You can enable the indicator lights in Dock Preferences, to check this.
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Feb 26, 2014 1:51 PMby mindful_compassion,@ putnik
When I tried to change the screenshot destination through the terminal commands, I received the following error message: "Could not write domain com.apple.screencapture; exiting".
Firefox even gives me the "only one copy" error message when I restart the computer and directly log in as "Play".
