On reflection, why does it work this way? I think/hope that Avid should address this issue. The AMA metadata folders are in Users>Shared which means that all users should have access, regardless of who first launches the application. Allowing one non-admin user to lock out all others seems a bit daft. I wonder what happens to the Attic folders if

OK - looks like we nailed this. It all came down to not having run MC uder an Admin account for first launch (the ReadMe does say this, of course). Doing this creates Users>Shared>AvidMediaComposer and subfolders with the correct permissions for all subsequent users, including non-admin. Sorry for the excess bandwidth.

FY (all ) I - I never use Avid Link. I always grab the installer from the Downloads page: http://esd.avid.com/ProductList.aspx

Iconservicesagent - that's it. It affected some of my 2018 installs, too.

Also in Activity Monitor, something along the lines of 'iconserviceshelper' or such. Eats RAM. Kill it. Open Activity Monitor before you start to install.

OK - so trashed all in User>Shared>AvidMediaComposer and run up as Admin. New Project.Used Browser to link to 3 folders. All good. Quit. Log in as non-admin (regular) user and find that altho 'AMA Management' has R/W for all three levels, the sub-foler 'AMA Metadata Folders' is R/W for Admin ony. 'Wheel' and 'Everyone'

In my university, we have in our first year, 90 students each with their own network login. We have folders full of teaching materials (Quicktimes, camera card copies, graphics etc etc). If we have linked media management enabled in the Link settings, once one logged in computer user has accessed a folder full of files, edited, quit and logged out,

Thsi is what I mean. Avid P&Z is OK but Frameflex misinterprets the same image. If rotated, there is insufficient scale adjustment:

MC 2019.8, Mac OS 10.12.6 and 10.14.6. Make a new bin with the shortcut (Command+N). Unlike older versions, the focus does not stay on the new default bin name, so you can't immediately type to rename it. Have to move mouse and click on the name. Not productive!

Use the keyboard! I haven't clicked those buttons in 20 years! And lasso to get into Trim Mode.