bug: trying to fix user file creation permission

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@@ -2,8 +2,29 @@
 
 FROM python:3.10
 
+# resolve spaces write permissions issue, sinpiration from: https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/permission-denied-for-writing-files-within-spaces/29799
+RUN useradd -m -u 1000 user
+# USER user
+ENV HOME=/home/user \
+	PATH=/home/user/.local/bin:$PATH
+
+WORKDIR $HOME/app
+
+# COPY --chown=user . $HOME/app
+
 RUN git clone https://github.com/NeotomaDB/MetaExtractor.git
 
+# Expose the port your Dash app is running on
+# changed from default 8050 to match HF spaces requirements
+# edit the port in the app.py file
+# inspired from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27713362/editing-files-from-dockerfile
+# comment out file handle line due to file creation permission issues
+RUN sed -i "s|port=8050|port=7860 |g" ./MetaExtractor/src/data_review_tool/app.py \
+    && sed -i "s|logger.addHandler(get_file_handler())|#logger.addHandler(get_file_handler())|g" ./MetaExtractor/src/logs.py 
+
+# change ownership of the app folder to user
+RUN chown -R root:user ./MetaExtractor/
+
 # Copy the requirements.txt file to the working directory
 # COPY ./requirements.txt .
 
@@ -14,11 +35,7 @@ WORKDIR MetaExtractor/
 
 ENV LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG
 
-# Expose the port your Dash app is running on
-# changed from default 8050 to match HF spaces requirements
-# edit the port in the app.py file
-# inspired from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27713362/editing-files-from-dockerfile
-RUN sed -i "s|port=8050|port=7860 |g" ./src/data_review_tool/app.py
+
 EXPOSE 7860
 
 RUN pip install pyarrow
@@ -33,4 +50,7 @@ ENV ENTITY_EXTRACTION_BATCH=entity-extraction-output.zip
 RUN cp ./data/data-review-tool/article-relevance-output.parquet ./inputs \
     && cp ./data/data-review-tool/entity-extraction-output.zip ./inputs
 
+# switch to user to run the scripts
+USER user
+
 ENTRYPOINT python src/data_review_tool/app.py