Help, please: MacOsX: Off to a rocky start! :-(

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Hello forum,

I just got my Arduino Starter Kit in the mail, downloaded and installed the latest Arduino environment (0018 for MacOsX), but when I launch the Arduino application, I get this error message:

"Arduino cannot run because it could not create a folder to store your settings".

It seems only a select few gets this error, as Google is not very helpful - maybe you can help me, please? It is ok to be challenged a bit when working with a new IDE, but failing to launch the application is just plain pathetic! ::slight_smile:

Thanks,

  • Christian

(Modified: Added "MacOsX" to subject)

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Found the solution myself: Write permissions were too tight in my Library-folder; I manually added an Arduino folder (/Users//Library/Arduino) and chmodded it to allow read+write...