failed git lfs install (?) - not sure what to do now

[kristinatietjen]

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I was trying to add a large csv to the repo using the desktop app and it warned me I did not have git lfs. I undid the commit then installed lfs using terminal, set it to track csv files, and pushed up the attributes. However, when I committed the data file again and tried to push it, I got the error: Remote "origin" does not support the Git LFS locking API. I searched that and following online advice I set lfs.locksverify=false. Then when I tried again it still said I needed to install git lfs. I tried doing it through terminal, but it was requiring me to sign into the repo - which of course that doesn't work anymore. I think tried to do the git lfs migrate import option and got this:

Could not determine if working copy is dirty: error running /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/libexec/git-core/git 'status' '--porcelain': 'Error cleaning Git LFS object: open /Users/kristinatietjen/Documents/github/KI_Recovery_MS/.git/lfs/tmp/3117816949: permission denied
error: external filter 'git-lfs filter-process' failed
fatal: data/.csv: clean filter 'lfs' failed' 'exit status 128'

I don't use git hub very often and I am now lost in what the actual error is and so don't know what to search for and I am nervous about trying random things.