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App can't be opened when accessing with another user
I have a mac that runs Fusion360 under one user. I now want to use the program from the other user but I get an error that the application is not supported.
That's weird because it runs without ...
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In mac OS, Is it possible to make a certain app use the root "Application Support" folder?
I'm curious to know if there's a way to make a certain app use the root Application Support folder on mac OS? So all user accounts on administrative level can run that app with the same data base/...
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Applications from a different user folder appearing in Launchpad
I have an iMac with two different user accounts on it, each with their own Applications folder within the user folder, in addition of course to the system-wide Applications folder. I had a group of ...
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Is there a way to limit which installed apps a macOS user can use? If so, how? [duplicate]
I'm interested in having two users on my MacBook, but restrict some apps from being used by one of them. Is there a way to block apps from being used by another user of the same Mac? Or maybe ...
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Close other user’s app
Is there a Terminal command or script that will close an app running under another user? I’d rather close than kill, but if not possible, kill would work, too.
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how to avoid the "downloaded application" warning for a Standard User
This is a followup on this post of mine: Application permissions for Standard user
I'm now running MacOS High Sierra 10.13.5 and this problem is still irritating.
I use my Mac as a Standard user. ...
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Is it still possible to migrate iphone app data to a new account by extracting the .ipa file and extracting the content?
For various reasons beyond the scope of this post, I must create a new Apple ID and iTunes account. There are a few apps on my phone that I must preserve the content from (I don't mind re-buying the ...
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Stop MacBook from installing applications for multiple user accounts
I have multiple user accounts on my MacBook. At the moment all of my applications go to a root folder and then there are separate folders for my user accounts.
I'm having a problem with application ...
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Using X11-Forwarding to show UI that runs by different user
I've logged on to my Mac under 'user1', and opened a terminal in which I've switched to another user 'user2' using su command.
Now I've opened a .txt file from that terminal by typing open file.txt ...
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Spotify always starts and I’d like it not to on my Mac
My computer just ran out of batteries, so I plugged it in and started it up. Spotify began to open, but I did not want it to be open so I used right click-force quit. The application stayed open, but ...
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Application permissions for Standard user
I use my Mac as a Standard user. When I first set it up, all applications were downloaded/installed using the Admin user. Running latest OSX 10.10.3
When using my Mac as the Standard user, every time ...
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Hide some applications from other users
I need to make use of a beta version of Xcode and so I created a second account on my machine, account B. I wish to install the beta Xcode onto account B such that account A is not able to see this ...
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How to launch a GUI application in another user's graphical session?
I'm trying to figure out how to launch a GUI application as another user that's logged in interactively, in that user's graphical session.
For example, say I have two users, foo and bar. Both are ...
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Make applications accessible to specific users?
I have an "Artist" user and a "Developer" user.
I'm wondering if there is a way to make system wide applications only accessible to certain users.
For example, I would like Pixelmator to only be ...
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Viewing the Account Name of multiple Apps in iTunes
We have several people using the same computer and the same user account. However, each person has a different iTunes account.
With respect to the Apps section, is there anyway to view the ownership ...
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Can I start an application as another user without actually switching users?
Is there a way to start an application as another user so that the started application would use the other user's preferences/history/resources et al?
For example: I've logged in as Alice and I'd ...
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How can I prevent accidentally quitting an application?
I use Adium, but if I set a "Quit Confirmation" in the advanced preferences, it cancels log out. If I don't, it is way too easy to quit it, since it gets focused between apps sometimes.
Is there any ...
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