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 From:  phlatt5th (P5TH)
5168.1 
Hello Michael thanks for the new update will try it later. Is there a special trick to running the app for two users on the same computer (iMac) I tried with the May 9th beta and lost the icon, the app will not launch and lost my command folder which had all my special scripts after I logged out and installed it for the 2nd user.
Thanks in advance.
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 From:  Michael Gibson
5168.2 In reply to 5168.1 
Hi phlatt5th, yeah there seems to be a bug with the Wineskin mechanism where it messes things up if you run the exact same .app from 2 different user accounts. The app itself gets messed up with one of its internal directories renamed and that's why you lose the icon and why it doesn't run after that. It is possible to repair it - to do that right click on the app and then pick "Show package contents", and then go select everything underneath Contents/ResoTemp and move all the stuff from there back to Contents/Resources. That will repair the app structure and after you've done that the app will run again from the original account where it was first launched from and your scripts and stuff should all be in there still.

So anyway, it will not work to run the same app from the same location for 2 different users, but you can make things work for 2 different users by setting up a separate app for each different user - to do that right-click on the app and pick "Duplicate", and then put one copy of it into somewhere inside of each user's home folder, like on each of their desktops or anywhere under their user folder so that each user has their own separate .app and then when they each launch their own one (instead of each launching the exact same one from the same single /Applications directory) it should then work ok. Please let me know if that method still does not work for you.

I'll ask about getting this fixed in a future version of Wineskin.

- Michael
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 From:  phlatt5th (P5TH)
5168.3 In reply to 5168.2 
Hi Michael, prior to your reply I installed both apps one in 1 users application folder. For the second user I cleared off the desktop and installed the other on that desktop that seems to work without problems. I suppose I could try putting it in the documents folder if I had to, since that is also a folder that is unique to each user. PS the new icons for flow is great. Thanks again.
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 From:  Michael Gibson
5168.4 In reply to 5168.3 
Hi phlatt5th, so I figured out what was going wrong there and it will be fixed up for the final release so that having just one single app inside of /Applications will be runnable from either user account. But it will only be able to run from one at a time - if you want 2 user accounts on the same machine to actually have it running at the same time you'll still need to set up a separate app for each like you've done now already.

Thanks for reporting the bug - it involved some file permissions not being set up how Wineskin needed them when dealing with multiple users.

- Michael
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