On Monday 21 December 2009, 05:39:32 pm, Elizabeth J. Biddinger wrote:
I recently installed the IFeffit package on a multi-user computer that uses Windows XP Pro. Athena and all of the other programs open and work fine on the administrator account but do not work on the user accounts. If I change one of the users to administrator it also works, but as soon as I change them back to user it again does not work. The Athena version we are using is 0.8.56 if that helps. Network security reasons require that our general users are on "user" not "administrator" logins. Any suggestions on how to get the programs to work in "user" mode?
Elizabeth, The likeliest problem is that Athena et al are trying to write a file to a directory that they don't have permission to write to. I had thought that I had solved that problem, but perhaps not. I probably don't do as much testing on windows as I ought to. I am going to need to some more information if I am going to have a prayer of solving this remotely. Could you, as a normal user, open a command window, use the cd command to move to the Desktop folder, then start Athena by typing the name of the Athena desktop shortcut (I cannot quite remember what it is called -- I am at home and without access to a windows machine). Hopefully, some complaint will get written to the command window that will give me some insight on the problem. If you could post a message to the mailing list containing whatever it says, that will (hopefully!) help. B