Unable to Download anything on Linux Mint after a fresh restart. Help

So I’ve had Mint for awhile now and it’s been amazing until recently.

It likes to freeze up from time to time, like twice a week and I have to constantly run (fsck /dev/mapper/etc—vg-root -y) this fixes the issue until The next time it freezes. Anyways that’s a separate issue that maybe contributes to this one.

Now I’ve just started up and went to download some music. I get an error code as I press download. The code reads, “could not be saved because disk folder or file is write protected” It’s almost like I’ve lost access to controlling my files or something.

I’ve read it could be hardware/hard drive related but it’s a powerful asus laptop that runs flawlessly in my opinion. I don’t care to lose any files as I could just transfer them but I really rather avoid that hassle. Hopefully there’s a fix to this that any of you advanced users may know?