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nrajack

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Oct 22, 2009
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Trenton, NJ
I recently moved over from my aging 17" Powerbook G4 1.67 GHz machine to a Mac Mini. Sweet machine and I get to run Snow Leopard. Got new versions of most of the programs I use on a regular basis so I don't have to sweat Rosetta. There is one program I don't use all that often and I can't justify getting a new version of it and that's IMSI TurboCad MacPro V5. I ran the V3 on my old PB under Tiger no problem. Go to install it on the Mac Mini and it says I must have admin privileges.

Well, I do have admin privileges. Had the Mini booted in 64 bit mode via the Terminal tweak. Did a Get Info on the installer and checked for it to run in Rosetta. Double clicked the installer and it still says I must have admin privileges to install. Repaired disk permissions. Tried again; no dice. So I booted into 32 bit mode by holding down the 3 and 2 keys. Checked that the run in Rosetta box is checked in the Get Info window. Still can't install (still says I must have admin privileges).

What am I missing here? It's probably something simple and with the weather being as lousy as it is I haven't been able to get out and get a decent book on SL. Mac Help file isn't much help here on this specific problem.
 
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