"The folder “Desktop” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents."

Choose Home from the Finder's Go menu, control-click the Desktop item, choose Get Info, and give yourself access.

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Anyone else have this problem...or even a solution???

I have this problem saving files from Mail to my desktop, The file “Desktop” couldn’t be opened., EVERY DAY. I reinstalled Catalina, I've run disk /utility repair. I can't spend an hour every day repairing permissions. It fixes it for the day and the next day it's back. Catalina is a disaster. So many things were broken. Apple should have made a major warning to upgraders. I can't work like this. Will have to use my Windows machine.

Just ran into this, Preview App is not allowed to save a file to the Desktop?!?! What is this?

Catalina is unstable. A reboot fixes it but it drifts over a half a day and another reboot is required. Folder permissions are broken, "share your ethernet network connection over wifi" is broken, can't do a recovery disc startup without wifi (I have ethernet at work)... not sure what else is broken

"The folder "Default" can't be opened because you don't have permission to see its contents."

I even tried giving Word full disk access and it doesn't work

Hmm, as previously stated... it helped with a restart of the computer. But that's what I used to tell my Windows friends as a joke when they had mysterious and unexplainable problems.