Is support right about this (file system permissions)?

Report · Aug 29, 2020

Somebody in Adobe support says I need to go every one of these directories in Windows (10) Explorer and grand full permissions to the creator, owner, system, administrator, and user accounts.

" As per the chat interaction we would like to inform you to please follow the steps and try to give permissions You can give Permissions to Adobe folders by going to the following locations
>>C drive\Program files\Adobe
>>C drive\Program files\Common files\Adobe
>>C drive\Program files(86)\Common files\Adobe
>>C drive\Program files[86]\Adobe
>>C drive\Program data\ Adobe
Then you have to Right click on Adobe folder on each of the above mentioned locations ,then go to >> Properties>> Security>>Edit and check all the boxes you see And click ok.

"As mentioned in the chat once you click on edit then you have to choose Creator owner,System,Administrator,user and click on one by one on these four and check all the boxes that you see under the allow and then click on ok.Try doing these for all five locations to adobe folder."

Before I create potential security holes and put a lot of time in here, can anybody confirm that this makes sense and is a good idea? Seems extreme, but maybe it makes sense and I'm just failing to understand why so many different account would need those permissions.

Please advise.

Thanks,
-billb

Report · Aug 30, 2020

I've never done anything like that on any of my Windows 10 systems. What trouble are you having that led you to support?

Report · Aug 30, 2020

It's in this post, and I'm working it another way with support now. But if you have an answer, the info is all in this post about this problem (the current post -- this -- was just to check if I should bother with support's suggestion, which it sounds like I should not at this point).

Problem is basically that I get "the destination drive is full" when recording in multitrack, even though I have only one drive and it's got 600GB free.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/audition/error-quot-destination-drive-is-full-quot-on-record-but-it-i...

Thanks,

-billb

Report · Aug 30, 2020

The only one of these that's ever given trouble with Audition in the past is a lack of Administrator rights - which sometimes prevents any execution at all, and all you have to do to circumvent this is to right-click on the icon and select 'run as Administrator'. Shouldn't affect any of the other files that Audition needs access to though - as long as the user you are has permissions - which by default you would have.

Report · Aug 31, 2020

Thanks. Turned out that dropbox sync-ed directory was the problem. Moved it out of there and fine.