What does "escalated privileges" actually mean?
Updated to Photoshop 2018 and tried to add in PIxelSquid. Even though it was listed as "acquired" at the Add-in website, the Adobe CC manager says: "The Add-on Plugin failed to install. It requires escalated privileges, click ..." So, I logged in as administrator (by the way, this same thing happened in the early days when the old manager was used, and I had to switch to being administrator—but that was eventually fixed to allow us users/administrators to do our thing).
However, while logged in as administrator, I had to wait over four hours (from ~9:30 pm - ~1:30 am) for everything else to be synced in the CC manager. Slow night on the satellite, I guess. Once that was done, though, I tried to install the PIxelSquid Add-in once again (you know, REMOVE and INSTALL, and yes, I waited over five-minutes in-between these actions). Unfortunately, the same thing happened—and don't forget that I'm logged in as administrator (but see next paragraph). Also tried to remove add-ins that wouldn't load in when I was previously logged in as a user (while I was logged in as administrator).
Nonetheless, the add-ins could not be removed. The kicker in all this mess was I did not know about any of these "escalated privileges" messages telling me they could not be removed until I logged back in as a user. The CC manager while I was logged in as administrator did not update with any messages (but did follow all the syncing, albeit very slow).
Is the problem because the Add-ins all need to be updated for Photoshop 2018? If not, what am I doing wrong then?
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