I do not know but you do seem to have permissions to write in that folder. You can use chmod and chown to restore those permissions. This could also be a problem with the filesystem. Some time permissions go bad in OSX and you have to use the Disk Utils to fix permissions and then reboot.
On Monday, 19 October 2015 20:53:28 UTC-5, Tom Campbell wrote: > > In the most recent version of Mac OS X, if I'm in the web2py directory > this works fine: > > echo "# todo" >> README.md > > Yet if I'm in web2py/applications or any of its subdirectories I get a > "Permission denied" error. What incredibly stupid thing am I doing wrong? > > > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.