HD went bad and my folders are locked. Help?!
SITUATION
Ok, I am currently booted up on an external hd of another user. My internal hd will not boot up so this is my only option. I am trying to recover/access files so that I can simply drag them on this bootable external hd so that I can in turn drag them back onto the hd that replaces this bad internal hd. Obviously I do not have a back up. I have alot of photos and various other files I want.
THE PROBLEM:
When I open the hd I see all of the folders for the users. However, the folders are LOCKED and I cannot open them nor drag them. I click on get info and check mark shared and try to change the read and write priveledges and they are grey and unable to be changed. I NEED TO KNOW how to unlock these so that I can drag these and save these.
Note: I have purchased disk warrior as well and I have rebuilt the directory on the source drive. These folders are appearing to be locked in DW preview as well.
VK said for locked HDs and volumes at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2329689
sudo chflags 0 /volumes/"name of volume"
sudo chmod a+rx /volumes/"name of volume"
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