Changing multiple Read Only folders to Read/Write

I have a rather large group of folders that are currently locked as Read Only which I need to change the names...I can do this on a one by one basis, but every single time I have to Get Info, Unlock, Enter Admin Password, Change Permission, Lock - then finally get to the task at hand.
This is very tedious - is there any way to do the whole group of folders at once?

Thank you, helpful but I get "You Have Mixed Access"....so I must still have to change them individually - or move all the locked/read only ones into a folder/directory of their own and try again...

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k-waris wrote:
Hi All
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Within Timed loop using ‘Create 1kHZ.vi’, I am reading using FGV at 1tick. However, in various other timed and while loops, I am writing into these FGVs. The data I am writing is not time critical, so I don’t mind if it is read in Timed Loop non-deterministically as long as it is eventually read, it would be fine. I understand that FGV architecture is non-reentrant and ‘Write’Instance’ may not execute while ‘Read Instance’ is executing. Does that mean that execution in the write loop stops and wait to push value in between short time window of 1ms which is the time period of timed loop?
Any advice on to improve this data communication. It is only application setting data such as buttons on/off statuses, references, scaling factors etc. It does not contain any IO data.
Is it possible to run Timed Loop or any loop in windows environment faster that 1ms. The option to set Timed Loop at 1us is not selectable.
Many Thanks in advance
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However it seems like you are only doing UI operations - I'm suprised that you need faster response than around 10-20ms or so for UI responsiveness.

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Foxboy71 wrote:
Hi,
I've created the first folder as a "Data" Folder *inside my home directory* to archive Downloads of different kinds (Programs / Utils / all this stuff). i wanted to have these Downloads accessible for all Users so that they can get the Data out of this folder. So the path is /Users/(me)/Data.
The other folder is my "Website" folder, standard OS X.
The exact Information of the Info Window:
(Me) read&write
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the User account in question is not an admin account.
now I'm completely confused. are you saying that you can write to this folder from a different account which is not an admin account?? that should not be possible based on these permissions. please double-check and make sure that the other account is not listed as admin in system preferences->accounts.
also, these permissions are wrong anyway. did you change them yourself? the default permissions on a newly created folder in your home directory should look quite different. log in as your main user and make a folder at the top level of your home directory. what are the permissions there?
P.S. the unknown user you see is quite normal if you upgraded to leopard from Tiger.
My account is an admin account.
Thanks for the reply,
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