warning: the current permission settings do not allow....

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massimoosti1943

Newbie Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Joined: Apr 29, 2010 18:01 Messages: 4 Offline

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Sep 22, 2015 12:33

when I open my PD13 ultra and click on the tab "preferences" a window open with this warning message: the current permission settings do not allow you to select this location. Select a different location, and then try again". If I click on the ok, the window disappear and then the preferences window open regularly. Any suggestion on how to get rid of this annoying warning.

optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

Sep 25, 2015 00:08

That's certainly not normal, and I can think of two things to try. First, right-click on the PD13 icon on your desktop and choose Run as Administrator. When it opens, see if you can access the Preferences menu. If that works, you'd have to use run as Admin every time and you'd probably want to fix that.

The next thing to try is to uninstall PD13 (and Quicktime and SmartSound if you're prompted to remove them as well), and when you are ready to reinstall PD13, please run the installer as an Admin and see if that cures the problem. If you clearly remember originally installing PD as an Admin, then this time just double-click to run the installer. Does that make sense?

You might be seeing this problem if you have a regular User account on Windows and PD isn't getting clear permissions when it was installed or when it's running. If you're running this from an Admin account already, there might be some corruption of the account profile, but we can worry about that if neither of these suggestions fix the issue.

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