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Hi Kate,

It could take a lot of time to find the reason of broken permissions. If you are limited time now, you can try to create new user account on your Mac, login to it and launch AutoCAD. You also need to be able to access your documents (DWG files, so you can copy your current work files to the external hard drive or to network drive in order to be able to access them from the new account.

Maxim