Have permissions to save screenshots changed since the OS X v10.9.2update?
Have permissions to save screenshots changed since the OSX v10.9.2 update?
iOS 6.0.1
Not for me.
10 replies
No. Can you explain your symptoms?
Until last week, I was able to take a screenshot and save it. Today, I got the message that I do not have permission to save the screenshot in the selected location. I can't think of anything different other than the software upgrade.
This could be a sign of a bigger problem. The problem is home permissions and ACLs (access control lists which are basically extended permissions). To reset your home permissions and ACLs you must boot into recovery (command-r at the boot chime). Once in recovery, on the top menu line is an action to open terminal. Open terminal and type
resetpassword
A menu will come up and at the very bottom is a button to reset home permissions and ACLs. Select that for your user name and let it finish (sometimes it fast, sometimes a little slow, I dont' know why). When it's done, go ahead and close the window then exit terminal. Now you can restart but I like to use disk utility and check my boot drive for errors while I'm here. I don't boot recovery often so why not.
Anyway, restart your computer and check if the problem still occurs.
Did you ever specify an alternate location for saving screen shots? You can check by entering this command in Terminal:
defaults read com.apple.screencapture location
This result is normal; it indicates the default location of Desktop for saving screen shots:
The domain/default pair of (/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture, location) does not exist
Double check the permissions of Desktop with this Terminal command:
whoami;ls -ld ~/Desktop
A result that looks like this would be normal:
yourusername
drwx------+ 14 yourusername wheel 476 Mar 14 19:59 /Users/gavin/Desktop
Thanks for this advice. I've tried this but still receiving the message:
"Your screen shot can't be saved.
You don't have permission to save files in the location where screen shots are normally stored."
They normally save to the desktop and an can move to a folder from there. The only other change I can think of in the last week is that I was asked to confirm my password.
Hi. Thanks for this. I checked the location as you suggested and the result was the same as your message.
And you've tried to reset the default location?
In terminal
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop
No but before doing that I decided to review some more basic steps. The desktop was ticked as "locked". All sorted now. I have learned some new diagnostics, though. So, thanks for taking time to reply.
Borninrottenrow wrote:
Thanks for this advice. I've tried this but still receiving the message:
That command wasn't supposed to do anything but verify the permissions set.
Unfortunately, it wouldn't have show the locked flag.
To see those, you would have needed to add the -O option (ls -ldO)
Have permissions to save screenshots changed since the OS X v10.9.2update?