App settings for all users - Presonus Studio

[Sheridan]

I'm trying to get Presonus Studio One to play nice on one of our macs - we have a single license and its installed and activated ok. The issue is the mac is used by multiple users (AD authentication) but the stupid thing only activates for the original user - so everyone else is asked to activate! Its crazy as its only one installation but multiple users. Presonus aren't much help as they obviously expect a mac to be a single user at all times.

 

The license file seems to be held in the ~/Library/Preferences/Presonus/Studio One 2 folder - so is there any concept of a 'Default User' profile like in Windows that I could copy to so every new users gets a copy of the license file?

 

I'm not trying to do anything dodgy here - I just don't get it why the application is activated for the current user only, as the activation uses the machine name anyway!

[bossman]

@Sheridan

 

Found this: https://support.presonus.com/hc/en-us/articles/210041513-Sound-Sets-Installing-To-Multiple-User-Accounts

 

Hope this helps....

[Sheridan]

Thanks, unfortunately it just shows how presonus don't recognise multi-user environments as you have to copy the license file across to previously created user accounts. We have potentially 100's that may use it!

 

However I have found a workaround which seems to work! For anyone having a similar problem, copy the ~/Library/Preferences/Presonus folder to the /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences folder and any newly created accounts get a copy of the license file!