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Just installed it, restarted, and haven’t done my second repair permissions, but will do so soon. Everything seems OK with PSE and my Epson. Will know more tomorrow, Ray helped me get up my courage!! Only thing that I need to know is if my EXT HD is OK, but too tired to look at it tonight,,,, Jane
I was running PSE quite happily on a G3 iMac. Then I bought a second hand 1.42Ghz G4 Powermac MDD (now running OS 10.3.5). That’s where my problems started.
When I try to install PSE the installer gets two thirds of the way through the installation and then stops with an Error Message that says "access denied: cannot create folder".
I’m not sure if this is PSE related or computer related – but I guess if you guys are happily using PSE on 10.3.5 then it’s probably a computer problem.
I’m not sure that I’ve set myself up properly to administer the computer.
John, I’m not using Panther yet, but under Jaguar there’s a Utilities folder in the Application folder. Once you find that, go to Disk First Aid, where you should find an option to Repair Permissions. It’s a system wide thing, so you don’t have to look for anything specific. If you haven’t done it, it may take a while the first time.
Get in the habit of repairing permissions on a pretty regular basis. In some ways it relates to the old "rebuild the desktop" in OS 9. When the permissions are out of whack, really strange things can happen. It’s also a good idea to run Repair Permissions both before and after installing software – especially programs that make use of an installer. I always do this and have had very few problems with my system. (I have a dual gig G4 MDD.) And, if you don’t leave it on and running 24/7, be sure you get one of the little utility programs like MacJanitor and run that regularly, too; that will replace the built in system utility that runs every day in the wee hours of the morning.
I forgot to mention that my G4 already had two hard drives installed. I struggled fratically with "permissions" for hours in OS 10.3.5 but PSE still would not install.
My previous owner had supplied me with a restore DVD which I have used to install OS 10.2.4 on the clean hard drive. This has enabled me to install PSE with hardly any problems. PSE also still works if I start up from the drive that has 10.3.5 on it.
I know that this might not be the best solution but it has enabled me to carry on using PSE.
Try Repairing Permissions (with Apple’s Disk Utility) BEFORE and AFTER any system upgrade as well as BEFORE and AFTER installing any software that uses an installer.
I know it sounds like OS X voodoo, and it is; but it fixes and prevents a bunch of problems.
Additionally, if your machine does not run 24/7 so that it runs the daily, weekly and monthly Cron Scripts in the middle of the night as intended, run Cocktail (shareware) as well.
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