Curious Artila CrouchingOwl Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 I have a little bit of trouble with being distracted by my games and so I like keeping all of them inside a folder that I set to be owned by a different user on the computer so I have to log out and back in again to play a game. Unfortunately I can't seem to find a good way to keep my Spiderweb games registered across all the different user names. They all end up being initially installed on the admin account I use for day to day work and therefore registered on that one. But if I try to play a game under the game user, it often shows unregistered or may spontaneously become so. This seems to happen to both Avernum and Geneforge games and on both ones installed from CD preregistered and on ones I downloaded the install for. I've tried getting around this by copying the preference file for each game on the user its registered under to the corresponding place in the other users. However this seems to spontaneously reverse itself and sometimes I've even managed to corrupt my installation and or game save files. Is there a reliable way to make the game registered across all users on a single computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Maybe it would work if you put the preferences in /Library/Preferences instead of the user's Preferences folder. It's probable that games won't read that at all, though. I haven't tried it. —Alorael, who assumes you're using a Mac from limited context. Are you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 They must be using a Mac. Windows registration is stored in the game folder. I know the Mac versions store their info in the user preferences. I'm not sure if they work in the global preferences. If you copy the prefs file over to the other user libraries, that will definitely work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila CrouchingOwl Posted June 13, 2008 Author Share Posted June 13, 2008 I am on a mac and I think I've just figured out what was causing my problems. I never bothered correcting the file permissions for the preference files. Geneforge 1 won't even launch if the preference file doesn't have permission for the user you are logged into. When I changed the permission to show the file being owned by the correct user then it worked just fine. That still leaves it to be seen if there are any spontaneous reversals as before, but I got it at least for now which is more than I can say for before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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