Fiddled with Mac folders on my windows PC

[Biscuit]

Ok so today i decided to back up loads of files on my mac incase anything happens (as you do) and for some reason i was tidying them using the network by accessing the mac hard drive on my windows PC... dumb idea in hindsight and i seem to have lost a lot of hours worth of my files as now when i try to access the specific folders on my mac or using the network i see a you dont have sufficiant priviledges message - plz help :s

[b0redom]

I can check what the permissions _should_ be, but for the time being, you can open up a terminal, and do:

cd <whatever>
chmod 777 <whatever file>

*SECURITY WARNING* - This will open up all files for world read/write/execute - so don't do it on a multiuser system. Where are the files located? You might find:

chown

and

chgrp

useful.

[Biscuit]

Im a bit o a noob when it comes to terminal, can you put it in idiot language plz

[b0redom]

open up terminal.app (looks like a dos cmd prompt)

Locate the files in Finder
cd <path to files>
chmod 777 <filename>

I can't check if there's a nice gui way of doing it (probably is) as I don't have my MBP at work.

[Biscuit]

it was the project specific folders that i couldnt get access too but the chmod command seems to have opened some of the up. Some of the folders have a space int he name and im not sure how to get them to open.

[peterb]

Try putting the folder name in quotes

"My Folder"

- if that doesn't work, try escaping them

My\ \Folder

[Biscuit]

All seems fine now thanks a lot guys!

[ShALLaX]

I wonder if this is what the "Fix Permissions" thing in Disk Utility is for... I've never had to use it, if I do ever have a permission issue, I just resort to cmdline Unix tools.