Unlock multiple folders within other folders

I have several folders within other folders that when I transferred them from my PC to Mac, became locked for some reason. These are folders that contain music files. (mp3,.wma, etc) My question is rather than going into each folder and unlocking the sub folder, is there a way to unlock all folders and their subfolders. ex. Folder named "Metallica" has folders within named "...and Justice For All" and "Reload" The Metallica folder is unlocked but the folders with in are not. Can anyone help? Thanks

Welcome to Discussions, dozer5000!
Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, and copy the blue text in. DO NOT PRESS RETURN YET!
chflags -R nouchg
after the "g" in "nouchg", type a space. Then go to the folder you want to unlock in Finder ("Metallica", I think you said), and drag it into Terminal. Now press return.
That should fix it.
Good luck!
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