borderlandphoto Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 I cannot for the life of me figure out how to allow ACCESS to save a working file onto my Mac. This should be a mainstay feature of a software right?! I have allowed access on my drive for affinity's applications already through my system preferences. I can export files in different formats, but I want to save a working file in Affinity's native format so I can open and tweak it for different uses in the future...Pleas HELP!! I have attached a screenshot of the error I keep receiving. I am on the latest updated version of Mac OS Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 4 hours ago, borderlandphoto said: I have allowed access on my drive for affinity's applications already through my system preferences. There should be no need to change anything in System Preferences to allow saving Affinity format files to any folder the current user has sufficient permission to write to. What, if anything, did you change that would affect this, & how specifically did you do that? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 Have you looked at your "Sharing and Permissions" for the enclosing folders? If you own the upper level directory "chrstopheralmaraz" you should be able to grant access to any sub folder. The application will write to any directory the user owns. There is a possibility that there has been a directory corruption. Run the Disk Utility app, and do a repair. Messed up permissions used to be pretty common, but I haven't had one for over 10 years. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 3 minutes ago, gdenby said: There is a possibility that there has been a directory corruption. Run the Disk Utility app, and do a repair. Unfortunately, Disk Utility's repair function does not touch the permissions of folders in a user's home folder. However, Apple provides a way to reset them to the defaults. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderlandphoto Posted May 23, 2019 Author Share Posted May 23, 2019 Thank you both for your replies. I did find a solution to this. Somehow permissions were changed when I had moved the parent folder to my external drive. Once I duplicated and put it back everything was ok. Now that I know it has something to do with my externals and how I backup I will play with it more on that side and see what is happening in my External drive settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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