Terminal: Permission denied when navigating to any folder

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Terminal: Permission denied when navigating to any folder

I try to navigate to a folder in terminal:

Input: username@Filips-MBP ~ % /Users/username/Desktop/project8/part1

Output: zsh: permission denied: /Users/username/Desktop/project8/part1

I've tried other folders as well but same thing happens. I wonder if it has to do with when I got this MacBook and used migration assistant. The old account followed and was set as admin but I then set the new account as admin and deleted the old one.

Any ideas?

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Apr 27, 2020 1:09 AM

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Answer 1

VikingOSX

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Apr 27, 2020 5:42 AM in response to filip62

Both the Bash and Zsh shells require that you use the built-in cd command prior to the path you want to navigate too. There is no direct path addressing as in your example wrongly displays. Instead:

cd /Users/username/Desktop/project8/part1

or more appropriately:

cd ~/Desktop/project8/part1

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Answer 2

Apr 27, 2020 5:09 AM in response to filip62

filip62 wrote:

I wonder if it has to do with when I got this MacBook and used migration assistant. The old account followed and was set as admin but I then set the new account as admin and deleted the old one.

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