Cache not working after switch from PC to Mac

[eluser]boltsabre[/eluser]
Okay, in case anyone else ever has this problem I got it sorted, is was strictly a permissions problem, looks like by default that the XAMPP folder on OSX is not writable.

I followed this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/90469...n-mac-os-x

Which in turn broke my mysql connection in XAMPP, which I then fixed by following:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13096...phpmyadmin