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<blockquote data-quote="ultimamax" data-source="post: 1422732" data-attributes="member: 212630"><p>My hard drive broke so I've been moving my files to a new one and the file permissions are messed up. I was looking for a command that edits the permissions of one folder and everything in said folder. I found two on another <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/94432-mass-change-folder-file-permissions.html" target="_blank">macforums thread</a> (sudo chown -R User_name /Users/user_short_name and sudo chmod -R 777 /Users/user_short_name). </p><p></p><p>I tried the first one, and it asked for a password, and I tried to type but it wasn't appearing. I closed the window and tried the command again, and it didn't prompt me for a password. I checked if the permissions had changed, they didn't. I restarted and tried the commands again, neither prompted me of anything or changed the permissions. </p><p></p><p>I'm sorry if this isn't the correct spot.</p><p></p><p>EDIT:</p><p>I'm not the main administrator of this account although my account is an admin. When I restarted I went on the <em>main</em> admin account to type those commands and it didn't work. I'm not sure if I need to be on the account I'm targetting to make it work. I'm going to try that now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ultimamax, post: 1422732, member: 212630"] My hard drive broke so I've been moving my files to a new one and the file permissions are messed up. I was looking for a command that edits the permissions of one folder and everything in said folder. I found two on another [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/94432-mass-change-folder-file-permissions.html"]macforums thread[/URL] (sudo chown -R User_name /Users/user_short_name and sudo chmod -R 777 /Users/user_short_name). I tried the first one, and it asked for a password, and I tried to type but it wasn't appearing. I closed the window and tried the command again, and it didn't prompt me for a password. I checked if the permissions had changed, they didn't. I restarted and tried the commands again, neither prompted me of anything or changed the permissions. I'm sorry if this isn't the correct spot. EDIT: I'm not the main administrator of this account although my account is an admin. When I restarted I went on the [I]main[/I] admin account to type those commands and it didn't work. I'm not sure if I need to be on the account I'm targetting to make it work. I'm going to try that now. [/QUOTE]
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