1008:5,-5000 Access denied error

[TuckerdogAVL]

Trying to install Dreamweaver MX2004 on the only computer I own that I can still run the program on - 10.4.11 MacBook with plenty of space - and I get this error message.

Of course there is no way, other than spending countless hours of reading thousands of posts and millions of worthless nonsense, to find any help on Adobe (Price per share, $36.37 as of 12.07, "Have I resolved all your issues?").

Any idea as to what's going on? It was on another computer...I may be able to do a Firewire move of the software...if I can relaunch, but I think I removed it from the other computer already....

I ran disk utility, as suggested on another forum where I trolled for about an hour....

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[DeltaMac]

There's lots to Google for that permissions problem. Typically, it means that some folder that MX 2004 is trying to use has wrong permissions, or you don't own the folder, when you should.
You can try a permissions repair, although if the installer wants to use a folder that you are supposed to own but don't, that may not help. You can make sure that you own all the folders in your user folder for a start.
My gut feeling is that you should do an archive & install of 10.4 on that Mac. re-update to current versions for 10.4
Try your DreamWeaver install after doing that.

 

[TuckerdogAVL]

You can make sure that you own all the folders in your user folder for a start.
My gut feeling is that you should do an archive & install of 10.4 on that Mac. re-update to current versions for 10.4
Try your DreamWeaver install after doing that.

so by doing the latter (archive, install and reupdate) take care of the former (make sure you own all the folders in your user folder)?

Thanks.

 

[DeltaMac]

there's a simple terminal command that you can run to take care of your own folder

sudo chown -R yourusername /Users/yourusername

The -R must be capitalized, and, of course, change yourusername to your own account shortname.
enter the command, and press return.
You will be asked for your admin password. You will not see the password as you enter it at that time, just type it in, and press return again.
When the prompt returns, your own folders will be owned by you...