Run Photshop Elements 3 from a non-admin account

Nov 01, '04 09:08:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Photoshop Elements 3 looks pretty good, but Adobe recommends for the best user experience to run the app as an administrative user. For various reasons [robg adds: see today's Opener malware writeup...], I can't and won't do that.

Here's how I got Photoshop Elements 3 to run as a non-admin user. This assumes your short user name is me, and your admin user's short user name is admin_user. Open Terminal, and type the following (don't enter the $; that's the prompt character):

$ su admin_user
Password: Enter your admin_user password
$ sudo chown -R me.me /Applications/Adobe Photoshop Elements 3
Password: Enter your admin_user password
$ sudo chown -R me.me /Library/Application Support/Adobe/PhotoshopElementsHelp
$ exit
PS Elements 3 will now run quite normally as a non-admin user...

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