Obscure Problem with Downloads Folder

Tegeril

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So I'm using my laptop just as I would on any other day, and I go to download something with Safari. It gets about 100KB into the download, and states that there is insufficient room on the volume to save the file. I go and try with Firefox, and it says a similar thing, stating that it can't save its .part file.

I have 30+GB of free space. I pointed the browsers at a different folder, no problems downloading. Clearly, something has gone wrong with the permissions on my downloads folder. Copying into and deleting anything out of the folder results in an admin password prompt after I choose to authenticate because the downloads folder cannot be modified, which ultimately results in success with whatever I told it to do.

Can someone tell me what permissions that their downloads folder has? My user account has read/write and "everyone" has read only. I also "have custom access" for both the downloads folder and my documents folder but in the same area it says "You can read and write" for my Applications folder (which has system as read/write, admin read/write, everyone read).

ls -la for the folder shows:
drwxr-xr-x Applications
drwx------+ Documents
drwx---r-x+ Downloads

The permissions were not modified by any Apple Installer based method because the package receipts used in the repair permissions process did not uncover any permissions errors. That said, clearly there are some.

So yeah, if someone can give me the information they see on their Downloads folder for reference, that'd be great. I provided the Applications/Documents info in the event that they help or are also wrong.

Thanks!
 

TheStu

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drwx---rwx+ Downloads

Mine is shared over my home network though for transferring to my hackintosh.
 

Tegeril

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Weird. Ok, I just deleted it and made a new one. So odd. Things would only copy in and out of the folder. Moving files was not an option without sudo mv in Terminal.

So strange.