Can't import due to permissions error

Question

The new iMovie is driving me nuts. Every time I try to import clips from my Panasonic SDR-H200, I get a dialogue box which says: "Can't Create Event. The import was canceled. You may not have permission to write to Users/CHRIS/Movies/iMovieEvents.localized"
Can someone tell me what the **** this means and how I fix it? I have tried going to my movies folder and adding my User to read/write permission but it tells me I don't have high enough access rights.

Answer 1

Chris
Are you on a local area network or single machine? If you don't have read/write permissions on your own Movies folder there is a problem with your user account. If you are on a stand alone machine the user who set up the mac would be the administrator and would normally have rights to change the permissions on your folder. If you are supposed to be an administrator but can't change permissions try creating a 'root' user. Check out apple documentation for root user accounts though, you can really mess up your system if you don't know what you are doing. If you are a network user it will take someone with an administrator level account to change permissions.