Error: Unable to save resume file: permission denied

[Madjik_Man]

Brief history:

Everything worked fine for years. My hard drive on my Macbook Pro crashed a couple of weeks ago. Before having it replaced I brought my computer to a data recovery specialist who imaged my hard drive.

Apple replaced my hard drive, I then had the data recovery specialist reimage the new hard drive, reinstall Mac OS X and I was on my way.

Any program that did not come on the Macbook Pro originally had to be reinstalled (this obviously included Transmission). I am now attempting my first torrent download and I am receiving the error above after a minute or two of uploading/downloading occurs. Then the transfer completely stops. I can click the resume button and it'll run for a minute or two, then stop again (with the same error message)

I am a total noob and have no idea where to even begin.

Thanks in advance (sorry if this is the wrong forum for this thread - again I'm a total noob)

[Rolcol]

Permissions are probably screwed up on your filesystem. See if this helps:

1. Run /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app
2. Select the system drive from the list on the left.
3. First Aid > Repair Disk Permissions

If that doesn't work, there is a more user-unfriendly way of doing this from Terminal.app:

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chown -R ${USER} ~/Library/Application\ Support/Transmission/

[Madjik_Man]

Hi

I ran repair disk persmissions but I had the Macintosh HD selected from the list on the left.

I do not see anything that says "system drive."

Would that be the drive above Macintosh HD that says something like "298.1 GB Toshiba Media"

THanks for the reply

[Rolcol]

I think the default name is "Macintosh HD", yes. I didn't mean the drive literally labeled "system drive". :p