Limited Users and Scratch Disks

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Yure_ka
Oct 15, 2008
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I switched to using a Limited Account under Windows. But I’m not sure on one thing, can Photoshop CS3 still write to scratch disks while under a Limited Account? I made sure the account has the permissions to write/modify on all scratch disks and I’d assume it’s all okay.

I ask this cause I have video software that cannot write to another disk unless I run as Admin.

Anyway just wondering.
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Mylenium
Oct 15, 2008
What’s a "Limited Account"? In simple words: Unless you don’t do anything to further restrict user permissions, program execution does not care what your actual user settings are. Even "Guest" accounts create temporary directories and config data, they are just not persistent. The only times when this is of any relevance is when you are using other "system devices" like scanners or printers and may not be able to set their options due to insufficient privileges or cannot use them at all. For practical day to day work, you should be a "Power User", but normal "User" also works.

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