can't save illustration

[crystelled87622110]

all the prior posts on this are old and not helping.

just got a new macbook air. plugged in the external hard drive I ALWAYS use, tried to save a new illustration and get the following error:

Can't save the illustration. You do not have enough access privileges. ID: -5000

The external HD is set to read and write for all three permissions. Not sure what else to do here.

[Met1]

Try creating a new user profile on the mac, seems to solve a slew of problems...

[Monika Gause]

Can you save to the internal harddisk?

One of my external harddisks also can only be written on one of my machines. I have yet to find out why, but it's a permission issue as well.