Cannot open LR4 Catalogue in a new iMAC

I have just bought a new iMAC. That was yesterday.
I already had LR4 purchased and used it regularly on my older iMAC. The LR4 Catalogue and Images were all installed in an external USB disk
So today, after installing LR4 and a trial version of PS6 (I own PS5) on my new iMAC, I connected the external USB disk, which had my LR4 Catalogue and images, and tried to OPEN the LR4 Catalogue in question. To my surprise, I got a dialogue box which read:
"Lightroom cannot launch with this catalog. It is either on a network volume or on a volume on which Lightroom cannot save changes.
The catalog's location is /Volumes/Toshiba_1TB/LACIE_2/LACIE_2/LACIE_2-2-2.lrcat."
I got so frustrated, that I IMPORTED the catalogue instead. After some while (25000 images), LR4 imported the images, with keywords, etc. Of course LR did so in a location on the iMAC HD, which is something I do not particularly like.
Anyway, I went to the smart collections, just to check that everything worked out all right, and opened one of them.
But when I tried to edit one of the images, I got this dialogue box:
"Lightroom was unable to prepare the selected file at /Volumes/Toshiba_1TB/LACIE_2/Art Projects/CHICA de Anne Marie/Chika de Anne Marie_ii.jpg for editing.
It will not be opened."
Could sombody tell me, please, if there's a way to open my original catalogue in the UDB external drive'
If that was not possible, why to I get the second dialogue box when I try to edit the image in the smart collection, telling me that the image would not open?
Thank you for your help.

I'm not a Mac person, but it seems highly likely that you are having permissions problems. Your current user on the new Mac doesn't have permission to write to the external drive from the previous machine.
Fixing up your permissions ought to make things work for you.
Hal

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