Permission denied locked hard drives cannot access

I have an issue wher my external hard drives have becom locked and cannot unlock them. Syas I do not have sufficient priviledges.
My user/ also set as adim kept on being askes to authenticate even on the main HD if i went to move a file and some files I wasn't even able to rename even after authentication. So i went and I added the user in the get info permissions tab and applied to all enclosed items... BANg then the external became locked. I cannot get in and unlock them. My usre says custom access in the info tabs and when i try to change it it goes back to the custom access and still locked. I repaired permissions and still the same same thing.
Help getting back! and assigning read/write permissions and access.
Thanks in advance,
joe

JCaravella wrote:
I have an issue wher my external hard drives have becom locked and cannot unlock them. Syas I do not have sufficient priviledges.
My user/ also set as adim kept on being askes to authenticate even on the main HD if i went to move a file and some files I wasn't even able to rename even after authentication. So i went and I added the user in the get info permissions tab and applied to all enclosed items... BANg then the external became locked.
bang indeed. by using "apply to enclosed items" on the whole startup hard drive you totally messed your system. you now have no choice but to reinstall snow leopard. so boot from the SL install DVd and reinstall. when the reinstall is finished log in and run the following terminal commands (copy and paste, please)
sudo chflags 0 /volumes/*
sudo chmod a+rx /volumes/*
you'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see). that's normal. this should unlock your drives.
Also, NEVER EVER use "apply to enclosed items on ANY system created folders, your startup drive or the time machine drive. That includes folders like your Documents folder, your Desktop folder etc. use it only on folders you made yourself. system created folders often have hidden ACLs and using 'apply to enclosed items" on them will propagate those ACLs to everything inside and buy you a lot of trouble. and system folders outside your home directory should not be touched period. certainly don't go changing permissions on any of them.

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