Zed failed to launch. Could not create directory in "/Users/.../.cache/zed". Permission denied (os error 13)

[kennethwolters]

I was in a situation where zed just wouldn't start anymore a couple months ago and I didn't use it because of that. I can remember deleting the .app file in the Applications directory and re-installing with a fresh .dmg didn't change the behaviour.

Today I did the same and now I am getting the following message:

So it seems this particular problem is not solved for at least my machine.

Originally posted by @kennethwolters in #6148 (comment)

[SomeoneToIgnore]

I have no idea why there's a message about creating an issue, as users are able to solve this pretty easily themselves by changing the directory's permissions to the current user, please follow #13426 (comment) and below for the instructions.
Note that those instructions are for macOS, but if you're a Linux user you should be familiar with permissions better.

Hopefully #13619 fixes the usability but I do not think we should keep this issue open.

[kennethwolters]

Hi @SomeoneToIgnore, I did the steps at #13426 (comment) and I am still getting exactly the same error (I am on macOS apple silicon).

ls -lad ~/.config/ ~/.config/zed/ outputs:
drwxr-xr-x 10 kenneth staff 320 Jul 26 20:56 /Users/kenneth/.config/ drwxr-xr-x@ 24 kenneth staff 768 Mar 22 10:10 /Users/kenneth/.config/zed/

[SomeoneToIgnore]

The error says ~/.cache/zed though? And you show the .config directory permissions which look fine — let's do the same for the former.

[kennethwolters]

Thank you, careful reading doesn't seem to be my strength! It is really weird that my user didn't have write permissions in .cache I wonder how that arises... I am guessing it's not normal behaviour for a macOS machine

[SomeoneToIgnore]

Yes, something was run with the root privileges before, and created this dir, this is not very good but now you know.