Can’t create/write to file Error Code 13 XAMPP Error Solution

Sometimes on Mac, you might wonder when your PHPMyAdmin is giving the following error.

#1 – Can’t create/write to file ‘/var/folders/_y/dsf4990dfdk23343kfl2k4ld/T/#sql1e2_1_0.MYI’ (Errcode: 13)

You need to set the permission of my.cnf to 600 and to do, follow these steps.

1. Open Terminal
2. Navigate to the XAMPP config folder
3. cd /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/
4. Set permissions of my.cnf to 600
5. sudo chmod 600 my.cnf
6. Restart MySQL.