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Why do you need administrator rights to install Unity?
From my experience, Unity runs fine from a USB drive if you copy the installation directory from Program Files. It doesn't seem like the installer needs to write to protected locations. Why, then, does it insist on having admin rights to install?
Why can't I choose where to install Unity to and then have the installer decide if I need admin rights based on that location? (I.e., if I were to install to Program Files, it would require admin rights, but if I were to choose a non-protected location like Documents, it would not.)
Answer by Eric5h5 · Oct 23, 2010 at 03:33 PM
The copy protection stuff needs to be installed on your system.
Which copy protection stuff is that?
If it's the license activation, I can say from my experience with Unity on a thumb drive that while Unity needs to be activated for every computer you run it on, that process does not demand ad$$anonymous$$ privileges.
Unity uses PAC$$anonymous$$ On $$anonymous$$ac it installs in /Library/Application Support.
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