Mac OS X version 10.8.5 Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2013/10

Hi WordPress Community

I’m new and I’ve seen that this is a topic that has been generally touched upon but my situation seems slightly more specific.

I am on a Mac OS X version 10.8.5. I have successfully installed WordPress locally on my computer but I’m having trouble installing a theme.

When I got to my WordPress dashboard and select Appearance/Themes/Install Themes/Upload and navigate to my zip theme Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/themes/CherryFramework.zip and select “Install Now” I get the following message.

“Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2013/10. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”

Not sure if you need to know this but in my web browser the path is http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/update.php?action=upload-theme.

When I “get info” for the following:
Applications folder - system is Read & Write, admin is Read & Write, everyone is Read only
XAMPP folder - system is Read & Write, admin is Read & Write, everyone is Read only
xamppfiles folder - system is Read & Write, admin is Read & Write, everyone is Read only
apps folder - User Name (Me) is Read & Write, admin is Read only, everyone is Read only
wordpress folder - User Name (Me) is Read & Write, admin is Read only, everyone is Read only
htdocs folder - User Name (Me) is Read & Write, admin is Read only, everyone is Read only
wp-content folder - User Name (Me) is Read & Write, admin is Read only, everyone is Read only
themes folder - User Name (Me) is Read & Write, admin is Read & Write, everyone is Read & Write
CherryFramework.zip - User Name (Me) is Read & Write, admin is Read & Write, everyone is Read & Write

So to me everything looks good. What am I doing? Why am I still getting that error message. Thanks in advance for your help.

Looks like I got it to work. I put the following in my terminal

chmod -R 777 /applications/xampp/xamppfiles/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/

Thanks for letting me post to the forum.