Hi Sarah, I think this is related to the Lion permissions problems I posted about earlier. I found the thread at the Apple Support forums when I was trying to track down reports of problems related to your inability to write to the Documents folder in your account last week. I think I recommended creating a new folder in your account, and saving to there. Did you ever resolve the issue about being able to write to your ~/Documents folder?
Some further research showed that the following alternative to using the Terminal command line to fix things might work. This was a later post from someone who looked for a solution based on the success reported with the command-line instructions, but who wasn't comfortable working outside the GUI. <begin quote> BatChmod (downloaded free with a donate option) fixed all my permission problems. I just chose the User folder and chose "Change ownership and privileges" and Clear ACL's. <end quote> Here's the link to BatChmod at MacUpdate: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/6440/batchmod Just for background, the people who reported problems in the Apple Support Community thread on Lion permissions had authentication problems similar to the ones you report, and tried repairing permissions. I'll paste in the post that started the thread, so you can see whether it sounds relevant to your case: <begin quote> Jul 22, 2011 11:17 PM I'm struggling with what I think is a permissions problem on Lion.. I purchased a new MBAir 11" and restored my files by copying them manually from a backup of my home folder - this is always how I have done it. I did have to change the Library folder flag to unhidden as found somewhere else on this forum. The first issue I encountered was that every time I logged out and logged back in, the machine was 'reset' to the state it was in hours earlier. I couldn't change any settings, they would reset themselves. (e.g. changing trackpad settings would reset when I exited system preferences). Also if I used Safari to browse a bunch of sites, none of the history was saved. The history would show everything up to a certain point and wouldn't save anything past that. I created a new user account and that account was obviously fine. So I copied all of my files from the old user account to the new user account. The problem I am having now is that any time I try to change a file in my home folder (e.g. rename) i am prompted for my password. I tried to reset permissions but that doesn't help. Would appreciate any suggestions. TIA. MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7) <end quote> Write back with more details if that doesn't work for you. Best, Esther On Feb 26, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hello to all. I tried to save a document in garage band I'm working on and I > get this. > > The document “tcjwb mic.band” could not be saved. > > That's it. no errors or nothing. I do have ownership of this folder and my > permissions are set right so dunno what's up. > > Take care all and hope you all can help. > > Thanks. > > > Sarah Alawami, owner and founder of WICS Radio America. Check us out on the > web at http://wics.cc and thanks for tuning in. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
