You dont have permission to open this file

I worked on a .psd in Photoshop like normal. All of a sudden I couldn't save my changes, saying I needed to change permissions or something. So I closed it and tried to open it again, and now I can't. It says I don't have permission. :/

I looked at the first url you linked and got onto Log in using built in-administrator | Create local administrator account | Windows 7, 8, Vista, went through:
Choose Start, right-click Computer, and select Manage.
But I couldn't proceed onto the second thing on that list, as ' Local Users and Groups' is missing from that list. :/!
Edit: Also, now the file has gone missing! This with a file gone missing has happened once before for me and it's not fun!!! One second it's there and the other it's not.

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Panther: http://www.apple.com/support/downlo...forpanther.html
Tiger: http://www.apple.com/support/downlo...31fortiger.html
Leopard: http://www.apple.com/support/downlo...forleopard.html
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