Run Photoshop Elements 6 under a non-admin account

Apr 22, '08 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: spicyj

Version 6.0 of Adobe's Photoshop Elements still has problems when running under non-admin accounts. On my computer, none of the effects or layer styles would appear in the Effects palette. It appears that PSE6 needs to write to a file called MediaDatabase.db3 in order to load the effects. Allowing write access to this file for non-admin users fixed my problem.

To fix the permissions, run the following command in Terminal while logged into an admin account, and enter your password when prompted:

sudo chmod a+w "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/6.0/Locale/en_US/MediaDatabase.db3"
Note that if your copy of PSE6 is not set to US English, then you will need to change en_US to the appropriate folder name.

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