Adobe Premiere Elements 12. Scratch disks are write protected or unavailable' Help

Thank you for your help....
I'm Mac based with iMac that is about 3 months old, 8GB ram and 1 TB disk. OS 10.9 Maverick. I have a Lacie Thunderbolt 3TB as my main disk and a 4TB Lacie for back up...
a. When I create a New document I select where I want the scratch disc to be directed, I add the content and make edits, save the file and then render it. The rendering goes all fine to where I have directed it. As long as I do NOT quit the project or close the project I can create Blu-ray, DVD's, .mov files and all.
BUTTTTT if i quit and reopen that file I get these two alerts first alerts says "The scratch disks are write protected or unavailable." the second comes up whe I go to render "Invalid Scratch Disk path for video previews. Please change it to some other location."
I can not do anything because it can not render or can not write to disks so I can not make DVD's or data files. Could it be OS 10.9?.
FYI I have redirected my scratch to the internal Mac drive and same problem.
See enclosed attachements.
That is where I'm at. Is it a global thing on my internal, exteranal HD's, OS 10.9 or what.
Any ideas?
Jim

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