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rachelleb75063757
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May 15, 2015
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How to fix installation problem of 'not enough permissions to write disk?'

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I keep having trouble installing the adobe flash player, because right as it's starting to download it stops and prompts, "not enough permissions to write disk." What do I do?

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_maria_
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_maria_Community Manager
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May 15, 2015

Hi rachelleb75063757,

Flash Player installs to restricted areas of the file system and thus requires Admin permissions to install.


What OS is this on?  Is the user ID you are using to install a standard user or an administrator user?

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rachelleb75063757Author
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May 15, 2015

The OS version is 10.10.3, is that the right thing? I didn't know there was a difference, I suppose. It's making me give my computer password to install, so I'm assuming that makes it an Administrator install? But once I put in my comp password, shouldn't that let it install?

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chrisl75074890
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June 2, 2015

I have the same problem. I'm the Administrator on my mac (and the only profile anyway besides mandatory guest). I've confirmed I'm the administrator to and posted the same problem saying:

I got this message when I tried to update my flash "adobe flash installation failed. not enough permission to write to disk".

I followed the forums suggestions and:

- Restart my computer - no help

- Repaired my disk permissions - No help

- Uninstalled flash completely off my computer, which worked fine but then when I tried to re-install a "clean copy" the same message comes up and now I don't have any form of flash on my computer at all.

My macbook is only used by myself and I have all the admin rights.

Can anyone help?


I had the same problem with an install of both Creative Cloud and Flash. Repairing file permissions didn't help and even an OS upgrade wouldn't fix it.

In order to fix the problem I followed an error notification for the Adobe CC Installer which said that it couldn't create a folder ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CoreSync. This led me to check the permissions for the folder at ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe (Where ~ indicates your user directory).

Select the Adobe folder, right-click and choose "Get Info" from the menu, expand the Sharing and Permissions tab at the bottom of the window and check that your user account has Read & Write Permissions, mine wasn't listed so I added it and voila Flash now installs!

I hope that this helps!

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