I have a solution similar to what @odima26 has said. What I did was went onto the web installer that I had downloaded. It listed the software I had downloaded
This includes:
I clicked on 'reconfigure', and set the default permissions again (I didn't really change anything). I had to enter my password which succeeded (which means I had been entering it correctly)
Now that the reconfiguration was complete, it started working well for me again!