My husband has been trying to switch from MS Excel to Apple Numbers. We recently installed Numbers on his two-month old Mac Mini. Having had file saving permission issues recently with Excel, I made sure all of his file saving permissions were Read-Write for him, who is also the Administrator.
We installed Numbers a few days ago, and today he started using it. However, when he tried saving it, he was told he does not have permission. This is a NEWLY created document in a NEWLY installed Numbers, so there is no way that I know to check and/or change the permissions.
After do some research, I had him try saving the document to the My Documents folder. That worked. However, that is not where he wants to save it. He can drag it to the Desktop, where he wants to save it, but that just makes that document an Alias.
So, HOW do I change that? How do I change the permissions if we can't even save a document ON the Desktop? We don't want Aliases.
And, as an aside, we've not had trouble saving documents of any kind prior to his computer being hit by an extreme power surge, taking it to the "hospital", having them recover the files and saving them to a flash drive, then downloading those files to the computer. At that time, ALL of his Excel documents were not able to have changes made to because, for some reason, he no longer had permission, even though when going to Get Info showed he did.
I don't know if it's a Sonoma issue, or some odd thing that, after many years of us using Apple computers we no longer know how to do things, is causing these permission issues.
I'm about ready to switch back to MS.
We installed Numbers a few days ago, and today he started using it. However, when he tried saving it, he was told he does not have permission. This is a NEWLY created document in a NEWLY installed Numbers, so there is no way that I know to check and/or change the permissions.
After do some research, I had him try saving the document to the My Documents folder. That worked. However, that is not where he wants to save it. He can drag it to the Desktop, where he wants to save it, but that just makes that document an Alias.
So, HOW do I change that? How do I change the permissions if we can't even save a document ON the Desktop? We don't want Aliases.
And, as an aside, we've not had trouble saving documents of any kind prior to his computer being hit by an extreme power surge, taking it to the "hospital", having them recover the files and saving them to a flash drive, then downloading those files to the computer. At that time, ALL of his Excel documents were not able to have changes made to because, for some reason, he no longer had permission, even though when going to Get Info showed he did.
I don't know if it's a Sonoma issue, or some odd thing that, after many years of us using Apple computers we no longer know how to do things, is causing these permission issues.
I'm about ready to switch back to MS.