Changing file access permissions?!

I have a MacBook Pro retina running os x mountain lion, if that helps any of you guys answer this question. I recently took a screenshot of an area of the screen using the command-shift-4 combination. When i was trying to open it, though, an error came up saying that i didnt have the permission to open the file. It told me to got to get info and change file permissions.
How do I change file permissions and why does it say this in the first place??
Thanks,
RZ

Doing a screen shot creates a file on the users desktop which they should already have permission to use.
So if it's saying you don't means there is something else wrong with your machine.
Do these to things first.
1: #6 Repair Users Permissions (this will fix the in user folder permissions)
2: #12 OnyX (free) cache cleaning and will repair OS X permissions.
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
What is basically going to happen is your going to reset the permissions of all files on the machine back to what they should be and not what something caused it to become off.
Doing all the OnyX steps in Maintainence and Cleaning is going to reset everything else in the system like caches etc., so it's like it just came from the factory which will cause those caches to rebuild anew and free of corruption that might have occured.
OnyX also has flags as it checks the drive for other issues, thus gives you a warning of other potential problems.
Make sure you have backups of your users files off the machine to a storage drive (not only TimeMachine) before you atempt any repairs as all the remaining software can be replaced except your files in case it turns out your problem is much larger than anticipated.
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>
Prasanna Shanmugasundaram wrote:
> Hi,
> I have the File to JDBC scenario. The file is extracted in AL11 folder of the Sending (BW) system.
> The folder is FTP enabled and the Unix admin says he has given full authorization to both the folder and ftp user.
> But in the File CC I get the following error "Could not process due to error: com.sap.aii.adapter.file.ftp.FTPEx: 550 TSMSACAIX5350.tar.gz: The file access permissions do not allow the specified action."
>
> Can some one advice what is wrong. Im pretty much sure it has to be a problem with the UNIX permission. But the unix admin person says he has given a full permission.
> I need to know what permissions needs to be given?? Is there different permissions for application level and OS level??
>
> Pls advice
>
> Thanks
> Prasanna
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>
Prasanna Shanmugasundaram wrote:
> Hi,
> I have the File to JDBC scenario. The file is extracted in AL11 folder of the Sending (BW) system.
> The folder is FTP enabled and the Unix admin says he has given full authorization to both the folder and ftp user.
> But in the File CC I get the following error "Could not process due to error: com.sap.aii.adapter.file.ftp.FTPEx: 550 TSMSACAIX5350.tar.gz: The file access permissions do not allow the specified action."
>
> Can some one advice what is wrong. Im pretty much sure it has to be a problem with the UNIX permission. But the unix admin person says he has given a full permission.
> I need to know what permissions needs to be given?? Is there different permissions for application level and OS level??
>
> Pls advice
>
> Thanks
> Prasanna
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