OS X :: Don't Have Permissions To View Files - Corrupted?

Jul 22, 2010

I performed an erase and install of Snow Leopard and then used Migration assistant to transfer all my data back to my computer. After that I noticed that on my 2 other internal hard drives, most of my folders had a red minus sign over them and when I clicked the folder it said "The Folder can't be opened because you don't have permissions to see its content". I clicked get info and under sharing and permissions there was a name that said "unknown". was this the newly created account which I had deleted? Afterwards I added my account and applied it to all my files and folders. I can now access all my files and folders. But now my question is weather or not my files became corrupt or was it just a permissions issue? Also What caused the permissions issue in the first place?

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Jul 1, 2012

Running 10.7.4, MacBookPro Mid 2010.   

After hardware failure (read heads on HD gave out.  AppleCare replacement of HD. Third party data recovery and reinstall on my new HD.)  I connected new Ext HD for Time Machine, and Time Machine has corrupted my startup volume. 

Took to the repair shop and they said the Time Machine preferences file was corrupted, which left all my system drive data in a read-only state after backup.  They trashed the pref file, and reset the permissions/read-only flags on my startup volume. 

1) How do I reset the file permissions myself? (so I can nuke my Time Machine backup, manually back everything up, and manually recreate my entire system drive?)

2)  Do you think since the data recovery place (Apple Authorized BTW) rewrote all my original data to the new HD, some "random" corruptions were copied over?  Or is this a problem with Time Machine?  (Which is why I want to do a manual reinstall/restore.)

Info:
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Jul 20, 2009

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Apr 2, 2012

I edited a wedding on Final Cut studio. Both the software as well as all my uploaded footage collected on an external harddrive. BOOM  My hard drive completely becomes corrupt and I can't mount it (meaning my computer doesn't recognize the drive). I then purchased a data-recovery software and, after about two hours, recovered the corrupted files. I then downloaded "VLC" as well as "DIGITAL REBELLION" to repair the files and they cannot seem to do so. Case and point I need these MOV. files as soon as possible and I turn to this forum for guidance of any kind. My Mac is a desktop iMac. It's completely updated and I'm running on iOS X 7.3.

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Photobooth Corrupted .mov Files

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Lately I've noticed that when I repair permissions, it's the same files that keep appearing the log of files being "repaired"... which leads me to believe they're not actually being repaired at all.

It's at the point where I can repair permissions once, generating a log of repaired files, and then if I repair permissions again immediately afterwards (whether I've closed and reopened Disk Utility in the mean time or not), the same exact list of files appears as being repaired.

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Feb 22, 2010

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Jun 6, 2012

I recently had a large hard drive crash, and, long story short, I got all my data back but now have a different user account on a new hard drive.  The permissions on all the files on the computer are fine. 

However, I am a recently graduated film student and use an external drive to edit video.  When I tried to open up Final Cut Pro and work on a project, I was told that the program couldn't work because I didn't have "write" access to my scratch drives.  I changed the permissions on the relevant folders and can now open the application fine, but can't actually edit because ALL the medi files don't give me full read/write access. 

I can change them all one at a time, which requires I enter my password for each one, but this would take a few days of work to complete.  My question is: how can I add my user account with read/write permission to many files at once?  I've heard this can be done with Terminal, but I'm not sure how.     

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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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Mar 27, 2012

I'm using mac os x server as SMB file sharing server and i got some issues with permissions. 

I try to use POSIX permissions. I put :

owner -> read & write
group -> read & write
other -> read only 

And after propagate these permissions it's working fine.

Until an user create a folder or a file and i see that the permissions of it are :

owner -> read & write
group -> read only
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I have set default permissions on new files and folder for this sharepoint with the great permissions for the group. But it didn't work..Someone have a solution ?

Info:
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

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Jun 20, 2012

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Oct 24, 2010

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