Permissions issues with Lion

I just suddenly started having issues with my permissions with folders on external drives. Many of my folders (which appear to be random) no longer allow me to read or write them, and a dialog box appears saying I do not have permssion to access the folders. I only have one user which is the admin user.... what could have caused this? I have some drives with duplicate data on them, and different folders appear with the loss of access then others on other drives. I thought this was specific to my newest MBP (10.7.2) but notice both my older MBP and my really old G4 do the same thing, but with different folders each time. I have repaired permissions twice on the newest MBP to no avail. When I get info on a restricted folder, I notice that under 'permissions' my username does not appear, just a 'fetching....' but no username ever appears. If I unlock the folder using my admin password, I can change access for 'everyone' to read and write, and then I can access it. But what is going on here? All drives have been verified under disc utility, and as I mentioned, I have repaired permissions on the MBP which seem to be fine. This is weird..... (and a little alarming)

Select the icon of the volume in the Finder and open the Info window. Click the lock icon in the lower right corner and authenticate. Then do either of the following:
Check the box to Ignore ownership on this volume.
In the Sharing & Permissions section, give yourself read & write privileges, then select Apply to enclosed items from the menu with the gear icon.

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There are many people on this board that know way more than I do. Sometimes there is the tendency to copy/paste some kind of boilerplate response though, especially if there isn't quite enough information about a particular problem, so just keep trying.
You should be able to add anything you want to your user directory without the use of any ACL entries. The purpose for the *deny delete* entries on the system created folders would probably be to reduce customer service calls about "accidentally" deleting some of the folders that the system expects to be there - it does not affect creating items.
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/usr/bin/who am i; /bin/ls -leO@d
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Issues with Lion, anyone having the same ones?

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Tmilless wrote:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1428
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Adam,

then i guess it´s 64 bit mode, using it "out of the box"..... one thing i really like ,this model of the macbook is really quiet, and dosent get as worm as the 2011 i cant hear the fans when doing some dvd ripping and importing/exporting some heavy files and playing some like batman etc , maybe the nvidia chip helps!? my first macbook pro 2009/2010 quiet- 2011 - mac mini ,macbook pro and i had macbook air i7 256 ssd worm and fan noise and then now back to envidia - guit?!
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