MacOS – necessary access permissions

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I have just installed a ssd drive into my iMac mid 2010 formatted the drive and installed Maverick and migrated only my applications from the old system drive which is now in a dock station. all when well but I cant save an image from Photoshop or any onto the new drive, an image from the firefox….

message:
"Could not save as “Untitled-1.jpg” because the file is locked, you do not have necessary access permissions, or another program is using the file. Use the ‘Get Info’ command in the Finder to ensure the file is unlocked and you have permission to access the file. If the problem persists, save the document to a different file or duplicate it in the Finder"

Info on the new drive has sharing & permissions- System (R&W), Wheel (RO), Everyone (RO)

what do I need to do??

Best Answer

Reset Your Home Folder Permissions and ACLS:

1) Boot into your Recovery Partition holding down command + R at the startup chime

2) Select 'Terminal' from your Utilities Menu Bar

3) Type: resetpassword

4) From the window that appears, select your boot volume and the appropriate user account

5) Click the Reset Tab under Reset Home Folder Permissions and ACLS

6) Close the pane and quit Utilities

7) Select your boot volume when presented with choose startup disk and reboot your machine

Edit (Courtesy of @Buscar's Point):

If you don't have a Recovery Partition present, you can perform the same reset while logged in using the Terminal Command below. Triple click the line, copy it, and paste it into your prompt. Supply your password when asked:

{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null

Command credit goes to Linc Davis of Apple Support Communities.

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