Problem with Pagemaker Quiting in Classic

[mannfred]

I'm running pagemaker 6.52 on a brand new pmac dual 1.25ghz (running os x 10.2.4) through classic os 9.2.

It's been runnning (reasonably) fine since I bought the machine about a month ago, but earlier today it refused to open at all - it went through the motions and then just quit to the desktop. I've tried restarting, even without extensions enabled and still had no joy.
However, I logged in with the administrative user and it opens fine. As soon as I log back in with the normal user account, it crashes again.

I have my suspicions about permissions after reading a vaguely related article after an extensive web search but I've not tried anythign else as yet.

Anybody any ideas?

 

[BionicJohn]

Sorry, Mannfred, I'm not a Mac user.

You could ask in the PM Mac section of

http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/main.html

You will need to register to ask a question or reply.

Iechyd da! John
18:48 21/05/2003 BST

 

[angler2229]

Mannfred,

Sounds like your using PM on a network. PM doesn't like to work from a network very well.

Did you install the program or did your network administrator install it for you? You say you suspect "permissions?" I would have to agree. See your network administrator about giving you the same rights to the program that s/he has.

Be sure the program resides on your hard drive and not the server.

Also do a File> Get Info on the program to make sure that PM has enough memory to run properly. I double the preferred size and increase the minimum size to 35% above the suggested size. You have plenty of ram to run the program on your dual processor, so triple the memory if you want.

Also experiment with virtual memory turned on, then off.

I'm hoping that increasing memory to PM will fix your problem!

Good luck!

 

[mannfred]

BigJohnD: I took your advice thanks and headed over to the adobe forums. Basically the best bit of advice there was don't run pagemaker through os x! Very useful I know, but after reading the other problems that people were having I'm not surprised.

Angler2229: Pagemaker is running locally on the machine and as I am the Network Administrator I did install it myself (I just don't use it day to day)!
I was a bit vague with the permissions thing, but basically the gist of the comment I read was that OS X doesn't like running applications if the actual application executable isn't buried in 2 folder layers with which you have permission to read, write and execute (if I remember rightly). I know that sounds complicated and I'm not sure if it's true, but I think the condition is met anyway.

I did the trick with allocating more ram to pm but no luck there either. I also tried running the disk repair utility from the startup disk and running fsck through the terminal.
I'll give the virtual memory thing a go when I get chance.

Just to clarify, the machine has been running pagemaker reasonably well uptil the point last week when it decided against it which is what makes it so strange to me.

Anyway, thanks for all your help so far. Although none of it's worked I still appreciate it.