Access rights

[Alec53]

I am new to the Mac os software, I am trying to create a folder and am being told I do not have rights to do this?

 

[chas_m]

Where are you trying to create the folder?

Are you an admin user?

 

[Alec53]

I am trying to create a new folder in Numbers for 2012 accounts.

 

[chas_m]

Repeating: WHERE are you trying to save this new folder? What *location on the hard drive* (or IOW inside what existing folder)?

 

[vansmith]

You only have write privileges to your home folder and a few folders outside of it (such as /tmp) that you should avoid using. The permissions were designed this way to add a level of security to the OS (thank you Unix heritage). In layman's terms, you should be saving files to your user directory and there only.