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Jan 22, 2004, 06:26 PM
 
I am running in a multiple user environment. In a non-admin user envirnment after installing Keynote, I am not able to run Keynote itself.

When I lauch Keynote it gives me an error saying:

"The operation could not be completed becasue you do not have enough access privileges."

It sounded like a permissions type problem. I logged into an admin account and set the ownership of Keynote.app to the non-admin user's account. I also applied this to all enclosed items, but after loggin back into the non-admin user's environment I was still not able to run the program.
Any ideas?

Keynote is in the /Applications folder.

Thanks.

t
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Jan 22, 2004, 07:58 PM
 
You may need to reinstall Keynote. Install it while logged in as Admin, and make sure to check the box for "install for all users".

One thing to try first is to run Disk Utility and to a Permission Repair. Worth a shot.
     
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Jan 22, 2004, 08:24 PM
 
Yeah, I was suspecting problems with permissions so I ran the repair permissions with Disk Utility.

When I installed Keynote I did install it from an admin account. I am not aware of a way to specifically tell the installer software to install the program for all users. How do you do that?

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Jan 23, 2004, 01:07 PM
 
The only way I could solve it is by making the non-admin user an admin. Then install the software, apply the updates, and re-adjust the user back to non-admin.

I am thinking some files are not correct on the system. I felt some non-standard behavior here and there. what can be ran on a system like this to make sure everything is where it is supposed to be, and everything works well. Are there tools to do that built into OSX?

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