@sdetweil Thank you! To fix that issue, reinstall MagicMirror without using sudo command?

Hello all,

So based on some of the comments here, i tried a new SD and a new pi. I had spare SDs lying around and I had a pi 4B that I was going to use initially but didn’t have a micro hdmi cable at the time so I had to use the 3. Micro HDMI cable came in, loaded piOS on the new SD, followed the MagicMirror install instructions and it came up first try.

Not sure what the initial issue was with the original install but I honestly just needed a win before getting bogged down in the weeds with stuff. I would like to have some fun with it first. Might go back to the original pi3 at a later date just to try and correct the initial issue, but for now, I’m happy.
The inital install, I had used sudo for the installation of MagicMirror, in this iteration I did not. I only utilized sudo to install the node.js

thanks everyone for the advice/comments.

Newbie here, sorry if this is an obvious fix.
I just installed MagicMirror on a Pi 3 A+ yesterday. I can start the magic mirror application but it only displays a blank black screen.
I followed the following installation guide: https://docs.magicmirror.builders/getting-started/installation.html#manual-installation

full error message:
“unable to write js/positions.js with the discovered module positions make the MagicMirror/js folder writeable by the uder starting MagicMirror”

I’ve attempted to change ownership of the folder but was unsuccessful.