Failed to save: Insufficient permissions. Select 'Retry as Sudo' to retry as superuser. M1 Mac

Question

I just cloned a GitHub repository on my M1 mac and opened the folder with VsCode but when I make changes in the file and try to save it, I get the error Failed to save 'Home.js': Insufficient permissions. Select 'Retry as Sudo' to retry as superuser.

What might be the solution?

Answer 1

You need to change your permissions for this file.

You can see the permissions for this file running the command:

ls -@l file

To change the permissions you can run

sudo chown -v username directory

If you want to change permissions on a whole directory run:

sudo chown -Rv username directory