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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ukchucktown" data-source="post: 1130694" data-attributes="member: 129039">It might help if you understand why I said to use 777 instead of 666. Let's say that CD has files and directories. I assumed the CD had both. If you choose to run chmod -R 666 * or chmod -R 644 * as suggested then the folders will not be accessible, even to the owner of the files. You will get Permission Denied if you try and open the folder from Finder or Terminal. I assumed the OP wanted to create a temporary folder for viewing the files so the simple approach is chmod 777 -R * on everything to allow them to view everything. I was not trying to burden the OP with the finer details of Unix permissions only give them a simple solution to their problem. The more secure method is below...find <folder> -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;find <folder> -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;</blockquote>