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Hello,
So my problems started when I tried to import songs to iTunes, but it said I didn't have enough access (the songs were located on my HDD drive). I tried changing all the itunes' files permissions to 'read & write' but that didn't work.. I searched the forums to see what else could be done and someone suggested to 'verify disk permissions'. The option wasn't available for the HDD disk so I did it on the Macintosh HD to see if it would help.
After this I couldn't access my HDD drive at all, it comes up with "The folder “HDD” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents."
This really scared me. I tried changing the permissions in 'Get info' but it kept changing itself to 'custom'. I then tried to open terminal to try sorting it out there but now i can't even type in terminal (I assume this is also to do with permissions).
I tried to do 'repair disk permissions' on the Macintosh HD but estimated time was 2 hours and I wasn't sure if I should go along with it.
Please help!
Thanks,
Marta

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