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Problem is more than just with help
Authored by: sjonke on Jan 26, '05 01:22:47PM

And harder to fix too. The problem I see is that whenever a different user uses Photoshop Elements, they start periodically seeing pop up messages that some unspecified file could not be modified and to check in the finder to see if it is locked. These happen even if it is just sitting there doing nothing. You click OK, and then a little while later you get the same message. Repeat. I'm fairly sure the files in question are the cache files. The problem is you can't just change the ownership and/or privileges of the cache files, because the next time a different user uses PE3, they overwrite the cache files, and then they are owned by them and not modifiable by anyone else. So even admin users end up having the problem. I run into this annoyance a lot because I've set up a 2nd account that I'm using for a slide scanning project which I want to have its own iPhoto library. So whenever I switch to one or the other user, I see the damnable pop-up error messages.

It's hard to believe that Adobe doesn't yet get OS X and the concept of multiple users. Those cache files should be in the users own directories, not in the application folder! I still really like Photoshop Elements 3, because it is a powerful tool (and the smart fix feature is just plain amazing IMHO), but they really need to get this right with Photoshop Elements 4 if they expect me to upgrade to it once that is out. PE4 better be a *real* OS X application.

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