Answers.Body: <p>Chances are your <code>craft/config</code> folder isn't <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/installing#step-2-set-the-permissions" rel="nofollow">writable</a>, but you can see the underlying error in your craft/config/storage/runtime/logs files.  Just search for [error] or [warning].</p>
  
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Answers.Text: If the system detects that the `config` folder isn't writable, could _that_ be displayed as the flash message? "Unknown error" is pretty vague.
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Answers.Text: Possibly... installation usually catches it, but sometimes that doesn't work if the site developed, then deployed for the first time, for example.
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Answers.Text: True... when files get moved from Point A to Point B, often the permissions get screwed up. Just asking because I feel like that mysterious error message has snagged me at some point too. :)
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Answers.Text: I had craft/config set as 744. When I set it to 755, the error goes away.
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Body: <p>Successfully installed Craft on MAMP but whenever I load the dashboard, I get the error message "Unknown error occurred". The message clears after a few seconds. The CMS appears to be functioning correctly except when I create a Section, it only allows me to select Single as a type. </p>
  
  <p>Can anyone shed light on this error?</p>
  
Tags: <error-message>
Title: Unknown error occurred after install on MAMP
ThreadText: # Unknown error occurred after install on MAMP
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-08-13)
  
  Successfully installed Craft on MAMP but whenever I load the dashboard, I get the error message "Unknown error occurred". The message clears after a few seconds. The CMS appears to be functioning correctly except when I create a Section, it only allows me to select Single as a type.
  
  Can anyone shed light on this error?
  
  **Tags:** error-message
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-08-13. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  Chances are your `craft/config` folder isn't [writable](http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/installing#step-2-set-the-permissions), but you can see the underlying error in your craft/config/storage/runtime/logs files. Just search for [error] or [warning].
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: If the system detects that the `config` folder isn't writable, could _that_ be displayed as the flash message? "Unknown error" is pretty vague.  
  > **username_1**: Possibly... installation usually catches it, but sometimes that doesn't work if the site developed, then deployed for the first time, for example.  
  > **username_2**: True... when files get moved from Point A to Point B, often the permissions get screwed up. Just asking because I feel like that mysterious error message has snagged me at some point too. :)  
  > **username_0**: I had craft/config set as 744. When I set it to 755, the error goes away.  
  
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