Return-Path: Received: from exprod6og121.obsmtp.com ([64.18.1.237] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5266271 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:35:00 +0100 Received: from outbound-smtp-2.corp.adobe.com ([193.104.215.16]) by exprod6ob121.postini.com ([64.18.5.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKUm1rLciynCDK4EUWBjJgT9E6uzntmvNA@postini.com; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 12:36:15 PDT Received: from inner-relay-1.corp.adobe.com (ms-exchange.macromedia.com [153.32.1.51]) by outbound-smtp-2.corp.adobe.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id r9RJaBn7005957 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 12:36:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nacas02.corp.adobe.com (nacas02.corp.adobe.com [10.8.189.100]) by inner-relay-1.corp.adobe.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id r9RJaA6A029071 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 12:36:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nambx09.corp.adobe.com ([10.8.189.47]) by nacas02.corp.adobe.com ([10.8.189.100]) with mapi; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 12:36:10 -0700 From: Todd Kopriva To: "After Effects Mail List (AE-List@media-motion.tv)" Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 12:36:05 -0700 Subject: warning for all people upgrading to Mavericks or any Mac OS Thread-Topic: warning for all people upgrading to Mavericks or any Mac OS Thread-Index: Ac7TS8cpO6L8Nzo4SZujCPxASlVxsw== Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 When you upgrade a Mac OS (as opposed to installing the new version fresh),= Mac OS will _often_ set permissions of folder and files incorrectly. You'll see this problem in programs like After Effects in the form of error= messages saying that a file can't be written, overwritten, or renamed. To fix this in the case of After Effects, go to the preferences folder and = set the _entire_ preferences folder and all of its contents to be writable,= not read-only. By "preferences folder", I mean whichever of these is relevant for your ver= sion: /Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/10.0/ /Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/10.5/ /Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/11.0/ /Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/12.0/ /Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/12.1/ ------------------------------------------ Todd Kopriva After Effects quality engineering kopriva@adobe.com 206.675.7931 ------------------------------------------