Re: Amaya doesn't work for ordinary users

On Monday 24 April 2006 16:19, José Carlos Santos wrote:
> On 24-04-2006 11:13, Irene Vatton wrote:
> >> I have a problem with Amaya under Windows XP SP2 which is rather
> >> strange, because it occurs only in one of the three machines that I work
> >> with. The problem is this: if I try to run Amaya as an ordinary user, I
> >> get one of those messages that says that some error occured and that an
> >> error report is going to be sent. No problem occurs if I run Amaya as
> >> an user with administrative powers. I tried to replace Amaya 9.5 with
> >> previous releases and the result is:
> >>
> >>   - I have the same problem with versions 9.4 and 9.3;
> >>
> >>   - with versions 9.2.2, 9.2.1, and 9.1 nothing happens when I try to
> >>     run Amaya as an ordinary user;
> >>
> >>   - version 9.0 works just fine.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >
> > I guess the problem comes from access rigth to Amaya working directories
> > and files. They were created with administrative powers.
> > I suggest you remove the directory C:\Documents and
> > Settings\$user_name\amaya then restart amaya with your user powers.
>
> Thanks, but it didn't work.

Is there a write protection to your drive?
Is there a special character in your $user_name?

Do you know that another existing directory instead of the default 
"$DRIVE:\Documents and Settings\$user_name\" can be selected.
You have to set the system environment variable AMAYA_USER_HOME for that.

     Irène.
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