How do I restore my Admin status for a program in Applications using 10.6.8?
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You need to explain what you mean clearly. Either you have admin status or you don't. It's not switchable for a single program. So please explain this for us.
Well I'm the administrator of this machine, but for some reason in Get Info for a program 'Admin'. appears as the Accts. (2 person icon), myself by my name, and 'everyone' is also listed (read only). Even tho' I have changed 'me' to read and write, and the other two to read only, I need to be the Admin. for the program (doing an update that's not taking properly) but can't figure out how to change things... thank you! Oh, I also did a Repair Disk Permissions earlier.
Is this the file that does not have the desired priveleges? I think that's correct. If so, then open Terminal in the Utilitie folder. At the prompt enter:
sudo chown -Rf root:admin [dragged file goes here]
Leave a space after "root:admin" and drag the file you need to change into the Terminal window. Press RETURN. You will be asked to enter your admin password. It will not be echoed to the screen so type carefully. Press RETURN again.
This will change the priveleges of the file to the default for the Applications folder.
Thank you for trying to help, but I have NO idea what that file you have here is... The file I'm having trouble with is an Applic's paint program.... ??
I'm referring to the file that you have that you are having a problem with. But you aren't providing much useful information to help me out. I don't know what to tell you.
I don't know what else you need - I'll help if I know what that is - I'm not a tech wizard and normally don't go into Terminal etc.... The program is called Flame Painter tho' I doubt if that tells you anything... the problem is that the download doesn't give the upgrade, only the orig., but the sellers are saying I should clear some cache, etc. to help but I'm not going to clear any caches to get the mickey mouse upgrade quite honestly... but would like it if possible. Thanks again...
As I said originally, I went to Finder, opened Get Info for the program and saw that the permissions weren't set up as I wanted them to be... and then wrote in here. I have no idea at all what that other thing you referenced is or where to find it to make the changes you mentioned.
How do I restore my Admin status for a program in Applications using 10.6.8
