Dashcode

Hi,
I'm totally stuck with creating a HTML widget.
In iBooks Author I placed a HTML widget.
Started Dashcode and created an empty dashboard widget (resulting in "Hello World" example).
Exported as ".wdgt" file.
When trying to import to my previously created HTML widget an error message popping up:
In German "Die HTML-Dashcode-Datei „TestWidget“ wurde nicht hinzugefügt. Sie erfordert unzulässigen Dateizugriff."
In English "The HTML-Dashcode-File "TestWidget“ has not been added. It required an illegal file access".
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Regards Berni

Repair permissions did the trick!

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