Storage fails to save user preferences and crashes upon starting of application

[autumn-sonata]

The following message appears when the JAR file is being executed through the command line, using the command java -jar FAP.jar:

This occurs due to how the application is unable to save to preferences.json, when preferences.json is read only. A similar logic applies to config.json as well.

The read only property of a file on your OS system can be manually configured by:

1. Right clicking the preferences.json file.
2. Going to the properties of preferences.json.

You will be greeted by this page:

The read only attribute of the file can be toggled under General -> Attributes.