Well i made my self another mess:
first, i installed the SnowLeopard onto a FW external drive and all went smooth and i made myself the admin guy of the drive.
Then i installed DP 7 and all went smooth until i launched it and tried to load a file from the tutorial folder ( that i dragged/dropped to the said FW hard drive ) there was a very nasty message that advised my i do not have privileges and that i am not the administrator to open the file and when i tried to quit DP 7 it would not quit. So i had to force quit.
How do resolve this ?
but but but i am the administrator
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but but but i am the administrator
Mac OS: Mojave
Re: but but but i am the admintrator
First, repair permissions. Second, when you "get info"
on the drive do you have ownership and read and write permission?
on the drive do you have ownership and read and write permission?
828x MacOS 15.5 M1 Studio Max 1TB 64G DP11.34
Re: but but but i am the admintrator
cuttime,
OK i checked and i have full authorization and privileges on the hard drive and the application,no luck,
the message sezs:
"The authorization file has been installed incorrectly. You must be logged in under an account with administrator privileges to authorize Digital Performer. ..."
OK i checked and i have full authorization and privileges on the hard drive and the application,no luck,
the message sezs:
"The authorization file has been installed incorrectly. You must be logged in under an account with administrator privileges to authorize Digital Performer. ..."
Mac OS: Mojave
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Re: but but but i am the admintrator
Try running the DP installer again when you are booted from the external drive and logged in as Admin. Repair permissions before and after this install.
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Re: but but but i am the admintrator
Sorry folks for wasting your time with my problem.
I think i know why DP is convinced that i am not the admin guy.
The problem stems from the fact that this external FW drive is daisy chained to the first FW drive because these new macs have FW 800 port whereas both of my FW only have the FW 400 port. So you need a special cable to break out from the 800 to 400 port. My first FW drive is connected by the 400 to 800 port but my second FW drive is connected by the 400 to 400 port.
Therefore as best as i can figure this out DP wants to be authorized from the first FW drive. Since i had DP already installed on the first FW drive when i launched it from the second FW it had no problems in opening and working with files.
I find this so strange because i have other MIDI/audio programmes installed on the second FW drive and none of them complained about ownership.
I think i know why DP is convinced that i am not the admin guy.
The problem stems from the fact that this external FW drive is daisy chained to the first FW drive because these new macs have FW 800 port whereas both of my FW only have the FW 400 port. So you need a special cable to break out from the 800 to 400 port. My first FW drive is connected by the 400 to 800 port but my second FW drive is connected by the 400 to 400 port.
Therefore as best as i can figure this out DP wants to be authorized from the first FW drive. Since i had DP already installed on the first FW drive when i launched it from the second FW it had no problems in opening and working with files.
I find this so strange because i have other MIDI/audio programmes installed on the second FW drive and none of them complained about ownership.