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Hello :)

 

I have noticed whenever I try to register my software licenses, the program doesn't hold registration because it's running without writing permissions, so I have to put the serial each and every time I run the software. No need to mention my default user has "administrator" privileges.

 

I logged as "root" and tried again and it worked flawlessly, which got me thinking there's something wrong with my administrator privileges. Is there any way I can reset them to default? btw I don't know if this problem is exclusive to hackintosh or generic to legit mountain lion...

 

Thank you!

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Thanks for the reply, I have tried this before posting but it doesn't seem to help... I have to manually set permissions as "owned by me" before launching the app to register. It was supposed to be set that way by default but it seems it doesn't work, so I have to set this manually for the registration to hold.

 

Not a big deal but I think it's weird... and it never happened in snow leopard

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Thanks for the reply, I have tried this before posting but it doesn't seem to help... I have to manually set permissions as "owned by me" before launching the app to register. It was supposed to be set that way by default but it seems it doesn't work, so I have to set this manually for the registration to hold.

 

Not a big deal but I think it's weird... and it never happened in snow leopard

How about manually set the permissions of the Application folder ?

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be careful. permissions issue is probably with your user folder and cannot be repaired with diskutility, you must boot into the installer and do it from there. In the installer open terminal and type "resetpassword" to launch the password reset utility, which has an option to reset home folder permissions and acl's, do not pick the reset password option unless you want to

 

About half of the applications are not owned by you, but are owned by the system and/or may need custom permissions.

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