Somehow you lost permissions to write to your own home directory. Start Terminal.app (from Finder: Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal), and fix ownship and perms on the top-level directory by running this Code: MYHOME=${HOME} MYUSER=${USER} MYGROUP=$(groups | cut -f 1 -d' ') sudo chown -R ${MYUSER}:${MYGROUP} ${MYHOME} chmod 755 ${MYHOME} Then attempt to create and remove a couple of test directories: Code: mkdir ~/testdir mkdir ~/.winetest rmdir ~/testdir rmdir ~/.winetest