Zed Fails to Launch

[arashmoini]

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I downloaded the latest release of Zed for Apple Silicon (0.140.5), but I can't seem to open the app. The error I get is the following: "Could not create directory "/Users/Name/.config/zed": Permission denied (os error 13). For help resolving this, please open an issue on https://github.com/zed-industries/zed."

Environment

MacOS Sonoma 14.5
Apple M3 Pro
18 GB RAM
512 GB Storage

If applicable, attach your ~/Library/Logs/Zed/Zed.log file to this issue.

Zed.log

[jansol]

See also

• FAILED TO LAUNCH: ~/.config permissions. #13365

[arashmoini]

Thanks for the reply. I tried the commands but unfortunately they didn't work.

[notpeter]

Hi @arashmoini, can you try manually creating the zed config directory and paste if you get an error:

mkdir -p ~/.config/zed
ls -lad ~/.config/ ~/.config/zed/

Thanks

[arashmoini]

Hey @notpeter, I ran the commands and get an error saying that permission is denied. I'm thinking it has something to do with the Sharing and Permissions settings of the .config folder, but I checked those and they all looked good to me.

[notpeter]

@arashmoini Yes. The permissions on your .config are such that your user does not have rights to create subdirectories under .config. If you have local administrator/sudo rights you should be able to do the following:

sudo chown $(whoami):staff ~/.config
chmod +uwrx ~/.config

Note, the command in the other issue was previous incorrect -- I failed to include sudo for the chown command. Can you try this and see if it works? Additionally, if you paste the output of ls -lad ~/.config/ ~/.config/zed/ I could confirm my hypothesis.

[jansol]

Even if ~/.config is fine, ~/.config/zed (and everything in it) also needs to be correct. Which I guess it might not be if you happened to run Zed with sudo at some point... (don't do that)

[arashmoini]

Zed seems to open up fine now! Even though this is the output from the ls command: ls: /Users/arashmoini/.config/zed/: No such file or directory drwxr-xr-x 3 arashmoini staff 96 28 May 08:53 /Users/arashmoini/.config/. It seems the command created the config folder but I just couldn't access it using ls.

Thanks for your help, everyone!