PRINT DIALOG: "you must be an administrator to delete this job"

Here's what worked for me:

• System Settings
• Printers & Scanners
• Select naughty printer
• Select "Share this printer on the network"

Hope this helps someone else!

Have you tried running Terminal and typing "cancel -a" (without quotes) and hitting return.

This will clear the print queue.

I can't help as to why this is happening other than offer the obvious things like check the print driver is up to date, check that the print driver software has access to the files it needs in the "Privacy" settings. For completeness I'd also check in System Settings > Users that you really are the only user and are an admin.

This worked. Sharing the printer on the network allows the deletion of print jobs in the queue. Thanks, HoyaMama!

WOW! THANK YOU HoyaMama! I struggled for days and couldn't figure a way to get it fixed. In a minute a read your post, in seconds I fixed the issue. Thank you again!

• System Settings
• Printers & Scanners
• Select naughty printer
• Select "Share this printer on the network"

Hope this helps someone else!

Firstly, thank you.

Secondly, in general, this new permissions stuff in MacOS is unintuitive. Why do I want to share this printer from my computer? It's already on the network. Makes zero sense.

Another example, if you don't allow an app access to your computer's microphone, then your audio interface doesn't work. I want to give a third-party app access to my audio interface, not my computer's microphone - why would I want that?

And finally, searching for unintuitive permissions errors like this is a huge a waste of time. Truly mind-numbing sorry.

Thanks. Weirdly this works.

I feel this must be a bug, because I started that print job to begin with when being away from printer. If I started it and if I'm an admin obviously macOS has no business preventing me from aborting it.

This is WEIRD. But I solved it. Temporarily at least. It always comes back.

Go to Privacy and Security

Choose Files and Folders.

UNCHECK ACCESS TO DESKTOP (enter your password)

And suddenly you can delete printer jobs without the bogus "administrator" error message...

I’m so glad it did!

Thank you! That worked for me too!!

That worked for me, thanks!

Yes, Yes, Yes!

Thank you. This worked for me :-)

That worked for me---thanks Hoya Mama

Make sure you are still an admin since I have seen some posts on these forums where an admin account has been turned into a Standard user account after an OS update. Check the "Users & Groups" System Settings to confirm your user is still shown as an "admin".

Have you rebooted the computer? Sometimes a computer just needs to be rebooted once in a while to clear things out.

You can also try re-adding the printer...you can even leave the current printer setup & add a new setup making sure to give it a different name so that you can distinguish them when you go to print.

WHAT WORKED FOR ME: OS Ventura 13.6.1 on a 2017 iMac. Double-check users and groups to see if you are still listed as "Admin" — If you are, restart. All my print jobs started printing.

This was making me crazy for two days. Hope it helps someone!!!