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Unable to launch Adobe InDesign as you lack sufficient permissions

  • October 2, 2018
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Hi,

We are a school attempting to deploy the latest Adobe Suite. I built it last week using Cloud Packager and have installed it successfully on systems, but am receiving the following messages when attempting to open InDesign:

The specified path is invalid.

And then after clicking ok:

Unable to launch Adobe InDesign as you lack sufficient permissions to access the preferences folders.  Ensure that you have appropriate permissions and then restart Adobe InDesign.

We also receive Dreamweaver encountered problems while constructing the menus from the current menus.xml file.  Please delete the current menus.xml file and rename menus.bak to menus.xml.

These are fresh installs - and as an Adminstrator I can open both programs, but both staff and students cannot.  What folders do I need to add write permissions to, so that we can access these programs?

Best wishes,

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    chsc56133645Author
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    October 2, 2018

    Further details. We're on Windows 10.  The currently logged in user has access to write to AppData in C:\users\<profile>\AppData

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    October 2, 2018

    Is there an Adobe folder in %appdata% ? What is in it if so?

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    chsc56133645Author
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    October 3, 2018

    Hi,

    AppData\Local has an Adobe folder. In it are

    - AAMUpdater

    - Animate CC 2018

    - InDesign (after running it for the first time)

    - OOBE

    Inside InDesign is:

    - Version 13.0\en_GB\Caches\TypeSupport

    (only folders, no files up until now)

    Then in TypeSupport:

    - AdobeFnt_CMaps.lst

    - AdobeFnt_OSFonts.lst

    In AppData\Roaming\Adobe

    There is CCX Welcome with data\map.json and stock\map.json in.

    Thank you on any help!

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