Symptom
1. When you open Stickies then make a change and quit, an alert box with this message appears, and the application does not quit:
"Could not complete the 'quit' command because you do not have the necessary privileges. -5000"
2. Users' Stickies notes do not follow them from one client computer to another, remaining local to the computer where they were typed. Thus subsequent users (including System Access) of the same client computer can see notes of previous users.
Solution
If you encounter Symptom 1, try force quitting Stickies by pressing the Command-Option-Escape key combination.
Note: This option may be disabled by the administrator. If you cannot force quit, the client computer must be force restarted.
Whether or not the MMLocalPrefs extension is enabled will determine which solution is the best to use:
- If MMLocalPrefs extension is enabled, place a copy of the "Stickies file" and "Stickies Preferences" in the Preserved Preferences folder.
- If the MMLocalPrefs extension is disabled, create a "Temporary Items" folder at the root (top level) of the share point that hosts the user's Home directories (/Users by default). This "Temporary Items" folder must allow Read/Write access for these users.
Note: Clients with MMLocalPrefs enabled that are not configured to preserve the Stickies file and Stickies Preferences will see other user's Stickies that were created while logged into the same computer. Similarly, these Stickies can also be viewed and edited while in System Access on the same computer. Preserving the preferences prevents this behavior.