Permission issue using compass on Mac

2
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I don't consider myself a Mac power user but permission in particular are confusing to me.

I am just trying to start a compass watch on a particular folder. I've done this a thousand times but for this new project it is giving me a permission error that I cannot seem to figure out:

compass watch

Change detected at 08:43:26 to: partials/bootstrap.scss create stylesheets/partials/bootstrap.css Errno::EACCES on line ["56"] of /Users/mikefielden/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-preview1/gems/compass-0.12.0/lib/compass/actions.rb: Permission denied - /Users/mikefielden/Dropbox/Projects/_Default Project/stylesheets/partials/bootstrap.css Run with --trace to see the full backtrace

That is the only file it complains about...

Any ideas on how to fix this?

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macossassfile-permissionscompass-sass

4 Answers

3
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This is a common problem with SASS/Compass and the reason is that the cache is gets messed up.

The proper solution is to run compass clean and recompile.

0
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Basically I just deleted that folder and started again and it worked, however I still don't understand why...

0
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The user that is trying to write the bootstrap.css file does not have the permission to do so. Take a look at the directory holding the file or the file itself.

0
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I know this is old and already answered, but I have run into the same issue and none of these answers helped me. Running

sudo compass watch

cures the issue for me. I'm guessing because I install using

sudo compass install.