I cannot launch my Pycharm 2021.1.2 from another user account on the same machine
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I have Pycharm installed on my main/personal profile/user on Windows 10. Recently, I've made a new profile/user on my pc for my work. All my applications work without the need to reinstall them but Pycharm refuses to work.
It states that I don't have the required permissions to run it. I updated the security options to allow my account directly on the Pycharm folders. This made the two messages I was getting disappear but now nothing happens after I click on the Pycharm.exe
If I try a fresh install on this profile/user it won't let me because the same version is already installed.
Thank you
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Try running it using <installation_folder>/bin/pycharm.bat file and see if it shows any errors.
This is what I get when I run the .bat file and load a project. It seems to be having trouble with accessing some of the required files.
I decided to remove the new user and remake it from scratch and now the app is working as intended. My guess is that some permissions weren't activated properly when it was created.