Lightroom4 won't open catalog from ext hardrive-mac

i just downloaded and installed lr4 on my imac. i had the beta and everything was working fine. my catolog, previews, and images all on an external hard drive. i go to open lr4 and it says "Lightroom cannot open the catalog named “A_Hazlewood Lightroom Catalog” located on volume “Photos” because Lightroom cannot save changes to this location."  why is this? the beta was working great. i have not changed anything. help?

It's a permission issue...on the extern drive are you sure you as admin and read/write? If you Command i on the drive, what are your settings? Unless you have a real good reason, I would set the drive to Ignoreownership on this volume. You might also to a fix permissions on the main drive using Disk Utlility.

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