Adobe Media Encoder - Unable to create workspace folders

I am on a new macbook pro system using Creative Cloud. I am using Premiere Pro and have been trying to open up AME, but everytime is says "unable to create workspace folders." I have tried trashing the preferences and no luck. Also I have done the cloud cleaner and re-installed Premiere Pro several times and no luck. Any help to get it working would be great.

I just had this problem as well. I was ignoring that message, but then my workspace was a small black box with no other ui interface. So I really had two problems going at once (pref error and workspace interface missing).
I quit Media Encoder, went to (myuser)/library/preferences and set the permissions for every user to read/write (although Im not sure if this actually did anything, because I also did the next step).
Then I navigated to (my user)/library/preferences/adobe and deleted the Adobe Media Encoder prefs folder. Then reopened the app, and everything was golden. No message, and my interface returned to normal.

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