Permissions problems with Creator 8.5.4 upgrade

[Ian Greaves]

Perhaps someone else has run into this.

I have Creator 8 installed on an iMac running 10.7  It ran 8.5.3 fine and both accounts on system (both with admin privileges) could open and run Creator.

After running upgrade something happened to permissions that prevents the account that did not run the upgrade from accessing Creator.

I have run Onyx and run the cleaning and maintenance scripts, booted the recovery partition and reset ACLs etc, tried adding in the other user in the Info permissions pain to no avail.

The drive passes verify checks from recovery partition and booting in single user mode.

Have removed Creator and reinstalled and upgraded, same problem.

Thought I might be getting somewhere when admin and staff had rw access to Creator folder and was able to propogate settings to enclosed items.

But no go. The non-installing user still can't open Creator.

Console gives me:

13-11-20 9:51:40.837 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505: ([0x0-0x291291].com.multiad.creator[26936]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Creator Professional 8.5.4/MultiAd Creator Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/MultiAd Creator Pro", ...): Permission denied

Obviously a permissions issue, but my terminal skills are of the enough to be dangerous variety. 

Any ideas as to what I need to do to get this situation rectified??

cheers

Ian Greaves

Composing Mgr

The Gazette

Western University

London ON

Canada

www.westerngazette.ca

[Steve Mills]

On Nov 20, 2013, at 21:17:21, Ian Greaves <igrea...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 13-11-20 9:51:40.837 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505: ([0x0-0x291291].com.multiad.creator[26936]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Creator Professional 8.5.4/MultiAd Creator Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/MultiAd Creator Pro", ...): Permission denied

I'm guessing the installer was created incorrectly. I'd be interested in seeing what the permissions are on the binary. Enter this into Terminal and report the findings:

ls -l "/Applications/Creator Professional 8.5.4/MultiAd Creator Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/"

You could try this to fix it in Terminal:

chmod +x "/Applications/Creator Professional 8.5.4/MultiAd Creator Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/MultiAd Creator Pro"

Depending on your user account, you might have to enter your admin password. If that doesn't work, try it this way:

sudo chmod +x "/Applications/Creator Professional 8.5.4/MultiAd Creator Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/MultiAd Creator Pro"

You'll need to enter your admin password for that one.

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Steve Mills
Drummer, Mac geek