Why is my mac behaving differently?

Help!! Im a fairly new switcher and have been delighted with my Mac mini. However, recently I have encountered 2 annoying problems. I have been unable to download anything including email attachments - I get the error message "cannot create file". The other problem is moving anything to the trash - I am prompted for my password and then am told I have insufficient privileges. How can this be when I hold the administrator account? If I log in to one of the other accounts on my mini, I can both download and use the trash.Previously my account has been performing just fine - why would it change and how can I fix it?
Thanks!

I'd start by repairing the disk permissions.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility
Click on your disk
click on the repair disk permissions button.
It seems your permissions have gotten messed up. Do not know why.
You can see what a files permission are by click once on a file then pressing command-i. Look down the list for Ownership & Permissions. See who is the owner and the access rights.
It's more complicated, but this is more of a problem for the terminal.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
id
ls -la
ls -ld .Trash
# l is long display
# a is display hidden files
# d is directory. Display info on directory.
#example:
id
uid=1000(mac) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff), 0(wheel), 80(admin)
mac $ ls -ld .Trash
drwx------ 5 mac staff 170 Sep 28 21:40 .Trash/
mac $ ls -ldn .Trash
drwx------ 5 1000 20 170 Sep 28 21:40 .Trash/
mac $
cd
# cd is change directory
cd .Trash
# n is numeric
# uid is user id
# gid is group id
# see how the uid of 1000(mac) is on the files of the ls output.
I suspect the owner and group has been corrupted.
This is fairly complicated, but give it a try and post back here what you find.
Robert
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adding the third parm to the extractvalue part of the query works.
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