I seem to be having a very similar problem, I do not have permissions to write anything in MY home dir
I don't get what's wrong. Below are examples/documenation from terminal. It shows I'm in my home dir (username 'mr'), I can't make new files, I can't change a directory name of which I am owner and have (according to ls read/write/execute permission), and I'm part of the group 'staff' so that shouldn't be an issue either.
iMac:~ mr$ pwd
/Users/mr
iMac:~ mr$ touch this
touch: this: Permission denied
iMac:~ mr$ ls -l
total 1129152
drwxr-xr-x 4 mr staff 136 Jan 21 2008 Adresser
....
iMac:~ mr$ mv Adresser/ adresser
mv: rename Adresser/ to adresser: Permission denied
iMac:~ mr$ groups
staff com.apple.sharepoint.group.1 com.apple.access_ssh everyone localaccounts
My user is not an admin (although I have admin rights on the computer), I'm running OS 10.8.1 on a late 2009 iMac. I'm puzzled, any help appreciated. I'm not sure I get from the thread above what actually helped 'I LUV MACS' solve the issue, but I shjould have write access to my own home-dir...
Thanks in advance